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Soft cover. Condición: New. No Jacket. RESISTANCE: BOOK 1 LIBERTY.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Near Fine/NF; name inside cover; top of jacket lightly wrinkled. Hardcover in jacket, 90 pp. With 150 color phtographs.

Condición: New.

Hard cover dust wrapper, 273pp, b&w illustrations. Very light wear to dw/board edges, previous owner's bookplate centre of front fep; a very good copy. Vivid personal experiences of Gettysburg residents are combined with moving accounts of Union and Confederate soldiers who survived the three day battle.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers (pbk), xi/395pp, b&w photos. Light wear to card covers with a 1cm crease across bottom right corner of front cover; a very good copy. In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little-known aspect of America's stalemated war: Navy aviators. Using Michener's notes, author David Sears tracked down the actual pilots to obtain their stories. The result brims with action-packed accounts of combat, from the icy, windswept decks of aircraft carriers to the treacherous skies over Korea, while providing unforgettable portraits of the pilots. …

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 421pp, b&w photos. A fine copy. Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother George Washington Whitman who let his men in 21 major battles - from Antietam to Fredericksburg, Vicksburg to the Wilderness - and almost died in a confederate prison camp as the fighting ended. Drawing on the vivid and earthy letters written by Walt and George, their mother Louisa and their other brothers during the conflict this chronicles the experience of an archetypal American family enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nation.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers trade paperback size, 338pp. Near fine. Reporter James R Gilmore first interviewed President Abraham Lincoln the day after the Civil War began and over the course of the war got to know him intimately. Gathered here are Gilmore's firsthand accounts of his meetings with Lincoln, where the president openly discussed military and political strategy, including the response to the Southern attack on Fort Sumter.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers trade paperback size, 226pp, b&w photos. Very light wear to card edges; a near fine copy. Detailed study of a brief but bloody campaign Full of personal accounts of air, ground, and naval actions Author has made numerous trips to Crete and knows the ground well The fall of Crete in May 1941 was a catastrophic blow to the Allied cause. Nevertheless, the British, New Zealand, and Australian defenders forced the German invaders to pay a heavy price for victory. The daring German parachute assault, the first major example of its kind, proved a near disaster--so much so that Hitler never sanctioned another. But the Germans recovered, gained the initiative, and took the island in ten days.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 420pp. Light wear to dw/board edges, previous owner's details top right of front fep; a very good copy. An eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. Former high-level defence analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilisation threatens our very survival. Framed as a memoir - a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating - this gripping exposé reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear catastrophe. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful - and powerfully important - book about the future of the world.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 319pp, b&w plates. Light wear to edges of dw/boards; a very good copy. First hand accounts of armored combat. Covers WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers (pbk), quarto, 112pp, b&w and colour photos. Light wear to card covers, previous owner's name stamp at top right of title page; a very good copy.

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers trade paperback size, 276pp, b&w photos. Light wear on card edges and corners; a very good copy. A poignant story of four combat photographers who died in Indochina - and the two journalists who kept their memory alive. In 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire over Laos and exploded in a fireball, killing four top combat photographers: Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of Associated Press, Kent Potter of United Press International, and Keisaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek. The remoteness of the crash site made a recovery attempt impossible. When the war ended four years later, the war zone was sealed off and the helicopter incident faded from the headlines. But two journalist colleagues-the authors of this book-returned to Laos twenty-seven years later to resolve mysteries about the crash and pay homage to their lost friends.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, xi/381pp. Light shelf wear, previous owner's name top right of front fep; a very good copy. Traces U.S. involvement in the Korean War, analyses American foreign policy of the period, and compares the war to the war in Vietnam. The sub-title indicates the three major areas of investigation: the atmosphere of crisis pervading Washington in the late 1940s and early 1950s, with the Red Scare and fear of communist expansion mobilising political and public sentiment in favour of military intervention in Korea; in an effort to maintain credibility the Truman administration committed the USA to a conflict in a little-known country for almost three years; the problems of command in the first major conflict since the War of 1812 in which the USA had to accept less than total victory.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers trade paperback size, 245pp, b&w plates, some maps. Light wear on card edges; a near fine copy. Despite his close personal association with Hitler, his humble origins and his intellectual limitations, Dietrich was to prove and effective, if unusual soldier who rose to command an SS Panzer Army in the Battle of the Bulge. He protested that he was first and foremost a non-political soldier, but he was twice convicted for brutalities (including the Malmedy massacre) as a war criminal and as a participant in "The Night of the Long Knives". 2 chapters detail with the war trials.…

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Hard cover dust wrapper, xxxii/430pp, b&w plates. Light wear to edges of dw/boards, small chip at top of front dw spine fold, previous owner's name top right of front fep; a very good copy. Graham, a longtime military and foreign affairs correspondent for The Washington Post, tells the behind-the-scenes story of how national missile defense, once considered a discredited relic of the Cold War, was revived during the 1990s to address an emerging Third World missile threat. Graham recounts the political battles surrounding national missile defense and the technological trials and tribulations of the major defense firms involved in the project.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers (pbk), xx/244pp. Card edges/corners a little worn, previous owner's name top right of front fep; a good copy. Recounting the last stand of the heavy cruiser Houston, this tale of survival brings to life the 1942 battle at Sunda Strait.

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 301pp, b&w plates. A little wear on edges of dw and boards, 0.5cm tear at bottom of front dw near spine fold, page edges lightly tanned; a very good copy. In the early days of World War Two when Britain stood alone against the terror of Hitler's all-conquering Third Reich, her future hung in the balance her defence in the hands of the Spitfires and Hurricanes of the Royal Air Force's Fighter Command. They were Churchill's Few. In defiance of their own country's strict neutrality laws, a handful of American adventurers flew with them. This is the story of the American Few - and a fresh perspective on the greatest air battle the world has ever seen.…

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Hard cover dust wrapper, 232pp, b&w plates. Clipped dw sunned on spine, some wear and chipping on edges and marking; a good copy. On 9 March 1862, the "battle of the century" took place at Hampton Roads. The U. S. S. Monitor, the world's first all-iron fighting ship, repulsed the Confederate ironclad Merrimack. In so doing, the Yankee vessel demolished forever the "wooden walls" of the fleets oak and billowing canvas, helped ensure a Northern victory in the Civil War. Ridiculed as a freak of its day, the Monitor was specifically designed to combat the indestructible Merrimack. Drawing on personal accounts and old logs, this covers the entire story of the Monitor, from its inception to its rediscovery in 1973. The author vividly re-creates the Monitor's famous clash with the Merrimack and gives a dramatic account of how a team of marine scientists rediscovered the Monitor twelve miles off Cape Hatteras, resting on the ocean floor.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers trade pbk size, xiv/322pp, some b&w illustrations. A little wear on cover edges and texta mark on bottom page edges; very good. The long and proud tradition of American submarine warfare actually began during the Civil War. From 1861-1865, scores of experimental underwatercraft in the service of both Union and Confederate navies patrolled enemy waters and harbors. Drawing on diaries, contemporary letters, factory records and log books, Ragan brings this little known history to light.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 407pp, b&w photos and maps. Previous owner's details stamp top right of front free endpaper, else fine. Brings fresh insight and new sources to this compelling account of the most famous air campaign of WWII, including the true origin of many 'Canadian' pilots in the RAF, whose nationality was disguised as such due to United States neutrality early in the war.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 258p,p b&w plates. Spine slack, a little wear on dw edges, page edges lightly browned, previous owner's signature centre of free endpaper, else very good. Discusses how Rudolf Rossler, known as 'Lucy', the Russian master spy, obtained his information.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, octavo, XI/324pp. Very light wear to dust wrapper edges else near fine. The author, a former USN Skyhawk pilot, is attached for six months to a strike fighter pilot training class that is learning to fly the FA-18 Hornet. This is his story of the students' training experiences.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, xiv/224pp, b&w photos. A little wear on edges, corners bumped, former owner's name on half title, dw edges and page edges browned, else good Account of American naval aviation in action in Vietnam, tracing the employment of fighter and attack aircraft such as the F-8 Crusader, F-4 Phantom and the A-4 Skyhawk from catapault launch to target engagement.…

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Hard cover dust wrapper, xviii/254pp, b&w plates. Light shelf wear, previous owner's name top right of front fep; a near fine copy. Eyewitness combat account of America's earliest days in the Vietnam war.Written from the perspective of a young army lieutenant advising a veteran set-in-his-ways South Vietnamese commander. In September 1962 when Dockery landed in Saigon, he was a young, determined, idealistic US Army first lieutenant convinced of America's imminent victory in Vietnam. While most of the 12,000 US military advisers in-country at the time filled support positions in Saigon and other major cities, Dockery was one of a handful of advisers assigned to Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) combat units. For eight months, Dockery lived and fought in the heart of the Mekong Delta with an ARVN infantry battalion on missions and operations that often lasted several days. And for most of that time, whether tramping through the steaming, leech-infested jungle, hiking across canals, or engaging in sudden firefights, Dockery was the only American soldier with the unit.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 587pp. Light wear to dust wrapper edges, top right front corner mildly bumped, previous owner's name stamp at top right of front fep; a very good copy. Covers Von Braun's life in Germany and his work on the V-2 during WWII, and also his post-war life in the USA and his work there on guided missiles and space launch-vehicles and satellites.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 316pp b&w plates. A little wear on edges of dw; a very good copy. In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II--pilots, navigators, and mechanics--who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report to local military bases. The president, Harry S. Truman, was recalling them to active duty to try to save the desperate people of the western sectors of Berlin, the enemy capital many of them had bombed to rubble only three years before. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had ordered a blockade of the city, isolating the people of West Berlin, using hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers to close off all land and water access to the city. He was gambling that he could drive out the small detachments of American, British, and French occupation troops, because their only option was to stay and watch Berliners starve--or retaliate by starting World War III. The situation was impossible, Truman was told by his national security advisers, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His answer: "We stay in Berlin. Period." That was when the phones started ringing and local police began banging on doors to deliver telegrams to the vets. Drawing on service records and hundreds of interviews in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, Reeves tells the stories of these civilian airmen, the successors to Stephen Ambrose's "Citizen Soldiers," ordinary Americans again called to extraordinary tasks. They did the impossible, living in barns and muddy tents, flying over Soviet-occupied territory day and night, trying to stay awake, making it up as they went along and ignoring Russian fighters and occasional anti-aircraft fire trying to drive them to hostile ground. The Berlin Airlift changed the world. It ended when Stalin backed down and lifted the blockade, but only after the bravery and sense of duty of those young heroes had bought the Allies enough time to create a new West Germany and sign the mutual defense agreement that created NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, square small quarto, 160pp, colour photos. Light wear to dw/board edges other than 2cm tear at top of rear dw (has been tape-repaired by former owner); a very good copy. Chronicles the history of the jooint strike fighterproject, from the high stakes competition between two aviation giants to win the contract to the controversies surrounding reported project delays. Along with Lockheed Martin's prize of building the F-35 cam the stress of managing a project of global magnitude. By early 2004, the JSF suffered delays when engineers determined the aircraft was too heavy to meet its short takeoff/landing specifications. At the time of publication Lockheed Martin was working to close the weight gap and the US military (and other custoners) sat within striking distance of having one of the world's most asdvanced combat aircraft.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, xviii/518pp, b&w maps. Light shelf wear; a fine copy, Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's aide-de-camp in the Northern army from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. Lyman was a Harvard-trained natural scientist who was exceptionally disciplined in recording the events, the players, and his surroundings during his wartime duty. His notebooks contain anecdotes, concise vignettes of officers, and descriptions of military campaigns as witnessed by him. As combat raged, Lyman penciled notations into his dispatch books, including exact times when Meade issued orders and when units deployed. He later transformed his notes into a coherent, historically accurate narrative, filling the account with personal and military details that few others were in a position to observe and including his sketches and hand-drawn maps showing the positions of the army after every significant movement.…

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Hard cover dust wrapper, 224pp, b&w and colour plates, battle maps. Light wear on dw/board edges, page edges a little browned; a very good copy. Detailed unit operations and individual accounts make for absorbing reading, and a rare chance for the reader to examine an early, yet very important, Russian front battle.…

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers trade paperback size, 308pp b&w photos. A bit of wear to card edges; a good copy. The panzer grenadiers were the foot soldiers who went into battle in WWII alongside the Third Reich's tanks. Whether in the Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS, these troops endured all the horrors of infantry combat - fighting hand-to-hand, storming enemy positions, and rescuing fallen comrades - but they did so in the shadow of thundering giants like the Tiger and Panther.…