Search Results: Cold War from Walnut Valley Books/Books by White

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1989 Simon & Schuster, New York. 1989. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, has a slight spine roll, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Fair; tears and missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips; light scratches to panels; edge bumping. Green paper over boards with black buckram overlay on the spine with bright green lettering on the spine. 875 pp 8vo. COL Hackworth, America's most decorated soldier, tells the incredible story of his life; enlisting in the Army at age 15, fighting in Korea, and was the consummate Cold War Warrior leading troops in Europe and participating in flash points on the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile crises. He was a living legend in Vietnam serving for six years. A blood-and-guts autobiography that pointed out the Pentagon's fundamental misunderstanding of the Vietnam War. A clean very presentable copy in Brodart mylar jacket.

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1989 Simon & Schuster, New York. 1989. Hardcover. 1st Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; bumped head, tail, and tips; shelfwear to board bottom edges; light soiling to textblock fore edge. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($24.95); bumping to head, tail, tips, and top edge of DJ; light scratches and rubbing to panels. Green paper over boards with navy blue cloth overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. 875 pp 8vo. COL Hackworth, America's most decorated soldier, tells the incredible story of his life; enlisting in the Army at age 15, fought in Korea, and was the consummate Cold Warrior leading troops in Europe and participating in flash points on the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile crises. He was a living legend in Vietnam serving for six years. A blood-and-guts autobiography that pointed out the Pentagon's fundamental misunderstanding of the Vietnam War. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1999 Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC. 1999. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light tip bumping; light rubbing to wraps; slight soiling to textblock edges. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 624 pp 8vo. This book tells how Allen Dulles took American spying from the back alleys of Europe to the forefront of American foreign policy as Director of CIA under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. His life spanned the American century: from his diplomatic service at America's embassy in Vienna during World War I to his running intelligence operations in the Middle East, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. The author explodes the myths spun by Kennedy defenders over what happened at the Bay of Pigs, using recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews with key Kennedy aides; reveals how… Read More

Annapolis, MD: Rodale Press, 2012 Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 2012. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: As New. DJ: As New. Blue boards with black overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 264 pp 8vo. This autobiography provides a unique window on early aviation, combat in the Pacific during World War II, life as a diplomat behind the Iron Curtain, the Vietnam War, and the complexity of national security decision making in the White House over a period spanning almost two decades. The son of aviation pioneer Lloyd Stearman of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Includes and analysis of why we could and should have won in Vietnam and how we betrayed our Vietnamese allies. A clean pristine copy.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956 Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 1956. Hardcover. Stated 2nd Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to tail; light soiling to textblock top; small piece of upper tip on pages i and iii has been clipped. DJ: Very Good; Price Clipped; chipping to head and tail; light wear at tips. Black cloth boards and spine with white and yellow lettering on the spine. 415 pp 8vo. This study, based on an extensive program of interviewing former American, British, French and Italian Communists, provides the answers as to why people would join the CP and what happens when they join, and why do the leave. This book gives a convincing insight into the motivations, tensions, and loyalties of party members. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1981 St. Martin's Press, New York. 1981. Hardcover. First Printing. Ex-Academic Library. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for ex-military library stamps on front pastedown and FFFP. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight soiling to boards. DJ: VG; open tears on top of cover and chipping to cover near head of spine. Black boards and spine with bright gold lettering on spine. 208 pp. Superbly supported by hundreds of the most dramatic and colorful illustrations yet to have been published on this subject, tis intriguing book gives the facts and figures which must be used in assessing the balance of power between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The heavily illustrated pages, containing action photos, maps, diagrams, charts and tables, hold a positive fascination for all those interested in modern weaponry and warfare systems. A clean and very presentable copy in Brodart mylar.

Fort Leavenworth, KS: Foreign Military Studies Office, 2005 Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS. 2005. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated 10th Anniversary Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant edge bumping; small nick at head. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 221 pp 8vo. Bear Went Over the Mountain is really not a single book; it is a compilation of forty-odd short vignettes of Soviet combat actions from their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. The accounts were taken and translated from a volume printed by the Frunze Combined Arms Academy in Moscow. They were originally compiled for the use of Soviet military students and not for general publication – and so they make light of both the successes and mistakes of the commanders involved, to which the author (an infantry officer, Vietnam vet, and Soviet analyst for the Foreign Military Studies Office)… Read More

New York, NY: Viking , 1998 Viking, New York. 1998. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. From First printing plates. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Near Fine; light rubbing to panels. Cream paper over boards with red paper overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 511 pp 8vo. The author explores ten centuries of artistic endeavor in a land uniquely suspended between East and West, past and future, sacred and secular. This book tells the stories of Russia's greatest novelists, poets, painters, composers, dancers, architects, and filmmakers as they struggles to extract beauty from their nation's painful life, and shaped the masterpieces that the world now acclaims as purely and uniquely Russian. A clean very presentable copy.

New York, NY: Viking , 1998 Viking, New York. 1998. Hardcover. Stated First Published in 1998/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine; NOT price Clipped ($34.95). Cream paper over boards with red cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 511 pp 8vo. The author explores ten centuries of artistic endeavor in a land uniquely suspended between East and West, past and future, sacred and secular. This book tells the stories of Russia's greatest novelists, poets, painters, composers, dancers, architects, and filmmakers as they struggles to extract beauty from their nation's painful life, and shaped the masterpieces that the world now acclaims as purely and uniquely Russian. A clean very presentable copy.

Washington, DC: NASA History Office, 1993 NASA History Office, Washington. 1993. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine; dampstain to heel of spine- no stuck pages. DJ: Near Fine; dampstain at foot of DJ. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Brown boards with bright gold lettering on spine. NASA Book SF-4105. 389 pp. This book is part diary and part recollection as T. Keith Glennan, the first administrator of NASA, relates the story of how he and others inside and outside the agency worked within the circumstances created by Sputnik to plan and organize a viable space program that ultimately put 12 Americans on the moon. A must read for anyone interested in the early history of the US space program and the atmosphere in which it arose. A very presentable copy in Brodart Mylar

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday & Company, 1970 Doubleday and Company, New York. 1970. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: VG+; price clipped, closed tear on rear of DJ, rubbing and slight chipping at top of spine. Maps as endpapers. Ivory linen boards with black cloth overlay on spine with bright silver lettering on spine. 447 pp. Told by the man who stood at the center of one of the most incredible events in the history of the US Navy. He tells of the capture of the spy ship USS Pueblo and her crew by the North Koreans. A revealing portrait of a man whose quiet courage sustained him and his crew through an ordeal few naval officers have ever had to face. A pristine copy with a very presentable DJ in Brodart mylar. A rare copy in this good condition.

Washington, DC: Center of Military History/Corps of Engineers, 2005 Center for Military History/Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC. 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. U.S. Army in the Cold War Series. CMH Pub 45-1. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket as issued. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on spine and Army crest on front board in silver. 483 pp. A major portion of the resources expended during the Cold War were devoted to the physical infrastructure that housed, trained, fed, armed, protected, and diverted the soldiers of the US and NATO for almost a half century. The US Army Corps of Engineers played a central role in building and maintaining that infrastructure. With color maps and B&W photographs. A clean pristine copy.

Washington, DC: Center of Military History/Corps of Engineers, 2005 Center for Military History/Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC. 2005. Softcover/Trade Wraps. CMH Pub 45-1. US Army in the Cold War Series. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight edge bumping; slight rubbing to wraps. No DJ. A major part of the resources expended during the Cold War were devoted to the physical infrastructure that housed, trained, fed, armed, protected, and diverted the soldiers of the US and NATO for almost a half century. The US Army Corps of Engineers played a central role in building and maintaining that infrastructure. With color maps and B&W photographs. A clean and very presentable copy.

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002 Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. 2002. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: As New with scant bumping to head and tail from shipping. No DJ as Issued. Blue leatherette boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and the front board; front board in black shadowbox with gilt borders. 267 pp 8vo. Why did half the people on New Hanover, a small island north of New Guinea, vote for Lyndon Johnson to be their ruler in 1964? Dorothy K. Billings believes that this sort of action, seen in New Guinea and other parts of Melanesia, is part of the 'cargo cult' phenomenon, or micronationalist movements which are principally regarded as responses to European colonialism. Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork and observation, Cargo Cult as Theater demonstrates how the 'Johnson Cult,' originally mocked and ridiculed by the outside world, should be seen as an ongoing political performance meant to consolidate local power and… Read More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. , 2014 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. 2014. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for remainder mark on textblock bottom. Book Condition: As New. DJ: As New. Black boards with black overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. 445 pp 8vo. This book examines a fateful period when Roosevelt's wrong decisions (swayed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek) combined with Stalin's geostrategic ambitions and Mao's ideological inclinations sealed the fate of the Cold War in Asia for a quarter Century- with enduring consequences for the Sino-American antagonisms to this day. A clean pristine copy.

Crystal Lake, IL: Rigby, 1999 Rigby, Crystal Lake, IL. 1999. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Printing by line number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to tips. No DJ. Pictorial heavy card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split. 46 pp 12 mo. A children's book on the Berlin Airlift and the story of LT. Gail Halvorsen of the US Air Force who started the Chocolate Drop over divided Berlin in his plane called The Chocolate Flier. To start he made parachutes and candy bundles and dropped them only from his plane after doing his real mission in the Berlin Airlift of dropping critical supplies of food, medicine, coal, and oil. This eventually grew as more planes did the same thing, then the British joined in too, and soon candy was flowing from people in the US and candy manufacturers. Candy, gum and chocolate rained on the children of Berlin. A clean pristine copy.

Alton, IL: Pere Marquette Press, 1964 Pere Marquette Press, Alton, IL. 1964. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Stated 2nd Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name on the title page. Book Condition: Very Good; slight page toning; shallow crease on the front wrap; light edgewear; light rubbing to wraps. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 126 pp 16mo. This book is "the inside story of how American Presidents are Chosen." This book gives a clear, concise statement of the issues in the 1964 presidential campaign, including the hidden issues within the Republican Party. Accounts of all Republican National Conventions since 1936 are included. A clean very presentable copy.

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1957 St. Martin's Press, New York. 1957. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: VG+; small closed tears and light chipping at head; not price clipped. Tan cloth boards and spine with black and white lettering on spine. 373 pp 8vo. This is the story of the Citizen-Soldier in Great Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, and the United States and his role in the current world struggle. These nations must solve the problem of creating and maintaining large mobilizable forces capable of deterring the Communist Powers, perhaps over a long period of years, without crippling themselves financially. A clean and very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Boston, MA: Western Islands, 1965 Western Islands, Boston, MA. 1965. Softcover/Mass Market Paperback. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O name stamp on the half title page. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant edge bumping; light rubbing to wraps. Pictorial card stock wraps; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 120 pp 12 mo. Linington, a best-selling author of historical romances under her own name and of mysteries as "Dell Shannon" and "Lesley Egan," describes her investigation of the John Birch Society and her decision to join. She turned to the mystery novel in 1960. Under two pseudonyms and her own name, Linington has created four separate police routine series, each featuring a singular detective protagonist. The book covers a great many of the feelings of the nation toward the changes that were occurring in society as the progressive and liberal elements surfaced more in government. She felt these communist, socialist, fascist elements would… Read More

Boston, MA: Western Islands, 1965 Western Islands, Boston, MA. 1965. Softcover/Mass Market Paperback. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant edge bumping; light rubbing to wraps. Pictorial card stock wraps; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 120 pp 12 mo. Linington, a best-selling author of historical romances under her own name and of mysteries as "Dell Shannon" and "Lesley Egan," describes her investigation of the John Birch Society and her decision to join. She turned to the mystery novel in 1960. Under two pseudonyms and her own name, Linington has created four separate police routine series, each featuring a singular detective protagonist. The book covers a great many of the feelings of the nation toward the changes that were occurring in society as the progressive and liberal elements surfaced more in government. She felt these communist, socialist, fascist elements would change America and she wanted to be there to stop… Read More