9780060138028 - The Raid de Benjamin F. Schemmer (12 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condición: Good. torn dust jacket. hardcover book with dust jacket, light wear to book edges. There is a signature and/or handwriting on the inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Book Club. Dust jacket has shelf wear. Stated book club edition.

Hard Cover. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Jacket rubbed, chipped edges. Boards have light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings. Prior owner name stamped on fep, bep. Photo section detached in a block, glued binding weak at p.110. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Ex Libris.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. DJ has light edge wear with scuffing and smudging as well as tearing. Boards have light shelf rubbing with scuffing and smudging as well as bumping. Binding is sound with cocking of the spine. Endpages have age-toning and smudging with foxing. Page edges have moderate age-toning with foxing and smudging. Interior pages are age-toned and smudging. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. pp.276 with index, b/w photos clean tight copy but for freckles top edge, d/j wrapped in mylar, former owner name stamped on frontpiece Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condición: Very good.

Hardback. Condición: VG+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition in $10.95 dustwrapper. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. BUT top edge slightly spotted. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. x, 326 pages. The dust jacket has wear, tears, soiling, chips and is price-clipped. Benjamin F. Schemmer is a West Point and Army Ranger graduate, and a former paratrooper. He is the author of The Raid. He has written for The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times and has long been a frequent lecturer at military command, staff, and war colleges. He died October 12, 2003 in Naples, Florida. Minutes after 2 A.M. on November 21, 1970, more than one hundred U.S. war planes shattered the dark calm of the skies over Hanoi. Their mission: rescue sixty-one American POWs from Son Tay prison. Less than thirty minutes later, the raid was over, but no Americans had been rescued. The prisoners had been moved from Son Tay four and a half months earlier and that wasn't all. Part of the raiding force landed at the wrong compound, a "school" bristling with enemy soldiers, but the soldiers weren't Vietnamese. Replete with fascinating insights into the workings of high-level intelligence and military command, The Raid is Benjamin Schemmer's unvarnished account of the courageous mission that was quickly labeled an intelligence failure by Congress and a Pentagon blunder by the world press. Determined to ferret out the truth, Schemmer uncovers one of the CIA's most carefully guarded secrets. From the planning and live-fire rehearsals to the explosive reactions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff watching the drama unfold to the aftermath as the White House and Pentagon struggled for damage control, Schemmer tackles the tough questions. What really happened during the twenty-seven minutes the raiders spent on the ground? Did the CIA know the whole time that the Americans were gone? Had the Agency in fact been responsible for the POWs being moved? And perhaps most intriguing, why was the rescuethough it never freed a single prisonernot a failure after all? First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Very light foxing on top text block edge.; 326 pages.