Virginia: Howell Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. When American bombers began crashing under no hostile action over New Guinea during WWII, Imparato and six others were asked to investigate - - in a region inhabited by cannibals. More
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1975. Reprint of 1962 original edition. Hardcover. More
Hong Kong: Blacksmith Books, 2020. Capt. A.C. Neilson RHKR(V) (cover design). Republished Edition. Hardcover. On the same day as the assault on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese army attacked the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Among the colony’s garrison were regiments from Britain, Canada and India as well as men..... More
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1998. Paperback. This volume, comprising Part I of the author's classic work Revolutionary France 1770-1880, offers a vivid narrative and radical reinterpretation of the years surrounding the momentous events of 1789 and their aftermath. During this period there were not one, but two revolutions: by intent..... More
London: Coronet Books, 1977. Reprint. Paperback. The author's memoir of life in a small Worcestershire village during World War II. More
New York: Grove Press / Grove Atlantic, 2003. Paperback. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan “freedom fighters” who continued, despite overwhelming odds, to fight the Soviet invaders. The congressman became passionate about their cause..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The 'macho pulps'..... More
New York: Doubleday, 2016. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
London: Penguin Books, 2005. Paperback. Part of the Penguin Great Ideas series Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969. Paul Bacon (jacket design). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died. For twenty-five years..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1967. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. # NZ3650. After eighteen months of intensive effort, Harrison E. Salisbury succeeded in becoming the first American correspondent to report the war from Hanoi. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's firsthand reports of how the Vietnamese war looks from the other side..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. More
London: Penguin Random House, 2017. Paperback. THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'The best new narrative of the battle thus far, reflecting his gifts for fluent prose and moving quotations.' Max Hastings, Sunday Times No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front during World War I...... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. Darrren Haggar (jacket design). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction. "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." ―San Francisco Chronicle The planning, the strategy, the sacrifices and heroics―on both..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. The Ili Crisis provides historical perspective for understanding Sino-Russian tensions in the border areas. Dr. Hsu investigates the reasons for Russian occupation of Ili (Kuldja) in Sinkiang, in the light of the intensified Russian advance into Central Asia in the mid-19th..... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998. First Edition (presumed). Trade Paperback. The origins of the Chan-kuo Ts’e (Intrigues of the warring states) as an entity can be traced to a palace librarian at the Han Court, Liu Hsiang (76–6 BCE), who compiled and edited the..... More
Boston: Mariner Books, 1996. Steven Cooley (cover design). First Edition. Third Printing. Paparback. An American Requiem is the story of one man's coming of age. But more than that, it is a coming to terms with the conflicts that disrupted many families, inflicting personal wounds that were also social, political..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2018. Trade Paperback. Translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson It’s the winter of 1944-45, and Michiel’s country has been at war since he was eleven. Now he’s fifteen, and his country is under Nazi occupation, including the town where Michiel lives and..... More
New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan’s “freedom fighters” — the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras — ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan..... More
Corgi Books, 2016. Paperback. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2013. Hardcover with Slipcase. Stock photos shown. Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded that first day, and..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. Softcover. In late l991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States he started writing and drawing Palestine, which..... More
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981. Third Edition. Paperback. A Pelican Book. More
Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1997. M. Kuwata (jacket design). First Edition. Thirty-fourth printing. Hardcover. The samurai sword: a symbol of the spirit of old Japan, it embodies the samurai's steel discipline, unswerving devotion and peerless skill. With its creation, a feat of craftsmanship passed down by generations of..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First Edition (presumed). Possible Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Excerpt of a review of this title via www.militaryhistoryveteran.com: Masters was a soldier turned novelist. His lasting memorial is his loving, exuberant memoir of service with the Gurkha Rifles is called ‘Bugles and a Tiger.’..... More
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