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[VIETNAM WAR] SUDDICK, Tom
Samisdat Vol IV No. 1: A Few Good Men
Berkeley CA: Samisdat Press 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's pale green wraps titled and decorated in black to spine and front board with a reproduction of the author's USMC telegram notifying his parents of him taking a shrapnel wound to the stomach to the rear wrap. A touch of fading here and there with soome very light shelfwear but a very good strong copy. 116pp. Internally clean. Signed by the author to the title page. One peculiarity is that the final leaf of the story "Diehard" has been typed manually and added to the volume at the rear where a printed leaf would belong with no sign of an "original" leaf being missing. Whether this was a later fix from a previous owner or something done in house due to a binding error is difficult to establish especially with "homemade" publishing. This is the first appearance of "A Few Good Men" a series of short vicious little war stories that are amongst the clearest invocations of the prevalent lunacy present in the canon. It was eventually reprinted in a book form in 1978 by Morrow/Avon this first appearance seems elusive especially signed. Samisdat Press unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] CALDWELL, Lucy
SIN One Way Economy Class
Princeton: For The Author 1976. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's photographic card covers titled in black to spine very light wear and some slight soiling to the white rear panel a clean bright copy. 164pp. Internally clean inscribed by the author to the half title:<br /> "With all good wishes Lucy Caldwell Princeton New Jersey."<br /> The privately printed autobiographical account of Lucy Caldwell's remarkable journey to Vietnam at the height of the war to help wounded servicemen after seeing anti-military propaganda. An astonishing effort for a civilian with no military experience and one with more than its share of challenges; Caldwell's attendance upon wounded GI's was accompanied by a cloud of Shalimar perfume; which the soldiers even the ones who couldn't see quickly figured out meant that they weren't doing so well prompting one man she was attempting to comfort to groan: "Oh no I can smell her. I'm not that bad. I'm going to make it. For The Author unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] SHEEHAN, Neil et al
The Air War in Indochina
Boston: Beacon Press 1972. First Revised Edition. 4to. 28cm x 22cm. Publisher's red pictorial card covers. Minor creasing and soiling most visibly to the lower corner of the front cover price discreetly excised with a hole punch to the upper front corner. Clean and sharp a very good copy. 289pp. Internally clean. A very highly detailed and in-depth assessment of the resources manpower and costs in play during the air war component of the war in Vietnam with a particular focus upon the intangible nature of that conflict to the average American. An air war is distant and notionally inaccessible to the general public is the general argument of the work which was compiled initially in a smaller report in November 1971 then expanded upon by the Anti-War Study group at Cornell University and a wider body of contributors including Rapahel Littauer Saha Amarasingham Chandler Morse Norman Uphoff and Carl Sagan amongst a number of others assessing the impact upon economies ecologies diverse human populations neighbouring nations and the potential continuing and more widespread effects that would be expected to spiral outwards should the aerial campaign continue at contemporary levels. One of the primary thrusts of the research is that Nixon's government used the execution of a massive and sustained aerial campaign to push forward initiatives they would not otherwise have been permitted to pursue for various physical economic and humanitarian reasons. One of many sobering points put across throughout the course of the study is that by the time of publication the US had dropped more bombs on Vietname than were dropped on Europe during the entirety of WW2. Beacon Press unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] .
The Air War in Indochina. With a Preface By Neil Sheehan. Raphael Littauer and Norman Uphoff Editors.
Boston:: Beacon Press 1972. Revised Edition. Revised Edition after the release of a preliminary report issued in 1971. A Very Good copy in illustrated boards. The first edition of this report was published in 1971 and was quickly recognized as the most important gathering material on the subject available to the American people. Now the authors have fully revised and brought up to date their findings. Always reminding us that the air war is not confined to Vietnam the authors analyze with care not only the air war in North Vietnam and South Vietnam but also in Cambodia and Laos. In addition they offer insights and necessary information on the ecological impact of the war the monetary costs ant the war's relation to the United States ConstitutionTable of contents reads: Use of airpower Air war against North Vietnam In South Vietnam Southern Laos Northern Laos Cambodia and more. Beacon Press, hardcover
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[Vietnam War] Shore II, USMC, Captain Moyers S
The Battle For Khe Sanh.
<p>Washington DC:: U.S. Marine Corps 1969. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good Plus copy in illustrated wraps with a small chip missing from the backstrip. No hardcover edition was issued. This is the story of the defenders of Khe Sanh--and the epic 77-day struggle which not only denied the North Vietnamese Army a much needed victory but reaffirmed to the world the intention of the United States to hold the line in Southeast Asia. In addition to having been a contest of men and machines this was the test of a nation's will. As a history this work is not intended to prove any point but rather to record objectively the series of events which came to be called the Battle of Khe Sanh. These events spanned a period from April 1967 to April 1968. Uncommon.</p> U.S. Marine Corps, hardcover
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[Vietnam War Literature] Marshall, SLA S L A
The Fields of Bamboo. Three Battle Just Beyond the South China Sea.
<p>New York::: The Dial Press 1971. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine price clipped dust jacket . General Marshall is best known for his unique method of battle reconstruction based on exhaustive interviews with the survivors of the campaigns and in this volume he recreates three Vietnam War encounters: the battles of Dong Tre Trung Luong and Hoa Hoi. The end result is an account of a battle as it is happening.</p> The Dial Press,, hardcover
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[VIETNAM WAR] MOORE, Gene D
The Killing at Ngo Tho
New York: W.W. Norton & Co 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm. x 15cm. Publisher's green cloth spine over black paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in red and black to spine light rubbing and edgewear some inoffensive discoloration to the cloth in a strong priceclipped example of the dustjacket light shelfwear and creasing with some sunning to the spine panel. A very good strong copy. Internally clean fore-edge untrimmed. <br /> <br /> An early novel about Vietnam; written by a serving soldier dealing with the conflict that exists between decisive military action and the common civilian understanding of what that entails and the nature of its consequences. W.W. Norton & Co unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] .
The Marines in Vietnam 1954-1973. An Anthology and Annotated Bibliography.
<p>Washington DC:: US Government Printing Office 1974. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good Plus copy in Original paperback binding. The thirteen articles in this anthology provide a general overview of Marine involvement in the Vietnam War.</p> US Government Printing Office, paperback
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[VIETNAM WAR] BROWNE, Malcolm W
The New Face of War
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1965. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's pale green embossed cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in dark brown and red to spine and front board with an embossed flame design in blind to front board. Clean and strong with some light bumping to the spine ends in bright pictorial dustjacket with some fraying and scuffing to the spine ends a very good. clean copy indeed. 284pp. Internally clean. With 17pp. of photographs to the middle of the book taken by the author including a sequence of images of the Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc self immolating in Saigon on June 11th 1963 the capturing of which event gained Browne lasting recognition and won him a Pulitzer. Another rather more significant effect of Browne's photograph is that by the morning of June 12th John F. Kennedy had the photograph on his desk pointed at it and bluntly told US Ambassador to Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge who contributed the preface to this book "This sort of thing has got to stop." Whilst that might sound like a relatively mild response to the suicide by fire of a respected holy man it effectively signalled the end of US support for the Ngo Dinh Diem regime and changed the course of the next ten years of conflict and upheaval. Bobbs-Merrill unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] DUNCAN, Donald
The New Legions
New York: Random House 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's green cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in silver gilt red and green to spine and front board. Clean and bright in a strong handsome photographic dustjacket with some very light edgewear and scuffing a near fine copy. 275pp. Internally clean. Top edge stained yellow. A review copy with the Random House slip laid in at the front. A pretty searing indictment of the tactics and methods of the US military machine in Vietnam as described by a Special Forces veteran who served on Project Delta and in the An Lao Valley before famously quitting in disgust and becoming something of a celebrity amongst journalists and organisations campaigning for an end to the hostilities. Random House unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature].
The People of Vietnam Will Triumph! The U.S. Aggressors Will Be Defeated! A Collection of Chinese Art Works in Support etc.
Peking:: Foreign Languages Press 1966. First Printing. Near Fine copy with a small stain spot on the top edge in illustrated wraps. Subtitled: A Collection of Chinese Art Works in Support of the Vietnamese People's Struggle." A lush and prolific collection of artwork in both color and black and white. Foreign Languages Press, paperback
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[VIETNAM WAR] KOLPACOFF, Victor
The Prisoners of Quai Dong
New York: New American Library 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in silver gilt to spine clean and sharp in a strong and bright example of the dustjacket slight scuffing and edgewear. A near fine copy. 214pp. Internally clean. Highly controversial upon its publication and asking a number of questions that its 1967 readers clearly weren't comfortable discovering the answers to Kolpacoff's novel deals with a nightmarish situation in which a disgraced US soldier's refusal to fight lands him in a brutal prison camp. He is offered reinstatement if he participates in the interrogation and torture of a 17 year old Vietcong prisoner in a claustrophobic jungle hut with four other men all of whom possess varying reasons and motivations for being there but who are all simply through association equally damned. Kolpacoff was never in Vietnam which seems immaterial to the main question posed by this his first novel; it is not so much what we are doing to our enemies but what are we doing to ourselves New American Library unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] Robbins, Christopher
The Ravens. The Men Who Flew in America's Secret War in Laos.
<p>New York:: Crown 1987. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The Ravens were American forward air-controllers who directed strikes from vulnerable low-flying spotter planes mainly in support of a Meo general named Vang Pao in Laos. "Advised" by the CIA this fierce warlord fought to keep the North Vietnamese out of the strategic Plain of Jars. Robbins Air America conveys the unique flavor of Raven-style combat and also explains how the diplomatic-military dynamics of the clandestine war in Laos fit into the overall American effort in Southeast Asia. The cast of characters is memorable: a swaggering rowdy bunch of mavericks whom their parent service the U.S. Air Force had great difficulty controlling they seemed to get by on sheer cussedness. According to the author they suffered the highest casualty rate of the Indochinese War. Robbins describes the poignant plight of displaced Meo/Hmong tribespeople who have settled uneasily in the United Statesincluding General Paoand their ongoing struggle to "propitiate the alien spirits of America." Photos. </p> Crown, hardcover
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[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried.
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by O'Brien. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time the place and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried.
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time the place and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried.
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a touch of sunning to the author's name on spine. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time the place and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried.
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time the place and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried.
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time the place and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried.
Toronto:: McClelland and Stewart 1990. First Printing of the First Canadian Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time the place and the men who experienced that particular conflict. If you were going to read only one book dealing with the Vietnam War experience"The Things They Carried" should be that book. McClelland and Stewart, unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] O'Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried.
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. While this collection of stories involving a single platoon in Vietnam is referred to as a work of fiction it is difficult to determine where the line between fact and imagination begins and ends. "The Things They Carried" is considered one of the two best portrayals of the war experience in Vietnam along with Michael Herr's "Dispatches." "Things" is simply a tour-de-force of exquisite writing about the time the place and the men who experienced that particular conflict. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] MAYER, Tom
The Weary Falcon
Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1971. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 21cm x 15cm. Publisher's grey-green cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine with some light sunning at the spine ends in a bright clean example of the pictorial dustwrapper with light shelfwear to head and tail of spine panel. A very good bright clean copy indeed. 174pp. Internally clean. A highly regarded and collectable collection of short stories from an on the ground journalist who travelled Vietnam extensively between 1967 and 1969. Houghton Mifflin unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] MARTIN, Ron
To Be Free!
New York: Vanguard Press 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine clean and bright in an equally bright pictorial dustjacket. A fine copy. 250pp. Internally clean. Inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf:<br /> "To Phyllis Oct 21st 1986 Ron Martin"<br /> A pretty taut and skilful novel of a soldier determined to escape from the horrors of a VC prison camp written by a marine who served in South East Asia as a direct response to the negative treatment delivered to returning US military personnel. Rather more complex than the general run of novels on this theme dealing heavily with the trauma and psychological damage caused not only by incarceration but by a hostile alienating homecoming. Vanguard Press unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] HARRIS, George L [with] Robert J Catto; Frederic H Chaffee; Frederica Muhlenberg et al
U.S. Army Area Handbook for Vietnam
Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1964. Reprint. 8vo. 23cm x 15cm. Publisher's original buff card covers titled in black to spine and front cover some light marginal shelfwear but generally the only significant defect is some grubbiness to the light coloured card. A very good strong copy. 513pp. Internally clean. 2 folding maps and numerous in text diagrams maps and charts. <br /> <br /> An incredibly detailed and forensically focussed survey of every aspect at least the aspects US intelligence and its civilian analysts had access to of Vietnamese life culturesocial structure economy geography religion and all points between. Everything from GDP to styles of dance and whether the suburbs of Saigon had adequate garbage collection services is examined along with a large amount of military and population data. One could be forgiven for thinking that by 1962 the US Army had already decided that large scale military involvement in Vietnam was a foregone conclusion. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] JONES, James
Viet Journal
New York: Delacorte Press 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; black cloth with titling and decorative blood spatter stamped in silver and red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; xii2573pp. Hint of foxing to right edge of textblock else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $7.95 with some pinpoint wear to spine ends; Near Fine. <br /> <br /> First work of non-fiction by the author of From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line. "James Jones gives us a personal and personalized journal of his trip to Vietnam at the time of the so-called cease-fire as the American Military Assistance Command moved out. He wanted to provide a novelist's view of what it was like in a war-torn country after the cease-fire" from front flap. 87113. Delacorte Press unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] Stanton Shelby
Vietnam Order of Battle.
<p>New York:: Exeter Books 1987. Revised Edition. Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. This is the complete illustrated reference to U.S. Army and Allied ground forces in Vietnam that is encyclopedic in its scope In these 416 pages Stanton covers the entire organization structure and operations from 1961 to 1973. Includes unit tours of service unit designations function arrival and departure dates unit locations strength and insignias. This fully illustrated revised edition includes much added material not available in the 1981 edition published by U.S. News.</p> Exeter Books, hardcover
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[Vietnam War Literature] Stanton, Shelby
Vietnam Order of Battle. A Complete Illustrated Reference to U.S. Army Combat and Support Forces in Vietnam 1961-1973.
<p>New York:: Galahad Books 1986. First Printing of this Reprint Edition. A Near Fine copy with two slightly bumped corners in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to one corner. This is a reprint edition with much added material not available in the 1981 edition published by U.S. News. This compendium of military information includes over two dozen strategic maps showing the disposition of various units and a list of locales where units fought major battles.</p> Galahad Books, hardcover
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[VIETNAM WAR] WATERHOUSE, Charles
Vietnam Sketchbook: Drawings from Delta to DMZ
Rutland VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company 1968. First Edition. First Printing a trade paperback original. Octavo 21cm; pictorial card wrappers; 56-1262pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine light wear to extremities else a clean Near Fine copy. Selections from the sketchbook of a US Marine of Iwo Jima fame each illustration captioned. 84567. Charles E. Tuttle Company unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] WATERHOUSE, Charles
Vietnam War Sketches
Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company 1970. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 21cm x 15cm. Publisher's orange illustrated card covers lightly faded to the spine clean bright and attractive. A very good copy. 127pp. Internally clean. A follow on publication from Waterhouse's very popular first "Vietnam Sketchbook; Drawings from Delta to DMZ". Colonel Charles H. Waterhouse USMC Ret. who fought and was wounded at Iwo Jima became an official civilian War Combat Artist for the US Navy in Vietnam before going on to become the US marine Corps first Artist in Residence until the 1990's. His candid on the ground and occasionally in the air portraits of of Navy and USMC personnel going about their duties amidst the civilian population were very popular and seem to have partly contributed to a definitive artisitic "Aesthetic of Vietnam" an instantly recognisable style of war art that is all but accompanied by a smell and a soundtrack. Charles E. Tuttle Company unknown
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[Vietnam War] McJUNKIN, James N [with] Crace, Max D
Visions of Vietnam
Novato CA: Presidio Press 1983. First Edition. 4to. 28.5cm x 22cm. Publisher's original black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in silver to spine strong and handsome in a clean bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. Internally clean. A collection of large format sketches and photographs by Crace and McJunkin depicting among other things the often jarring contrast between daily life and military duty in Vietnam during the war. Presidio Press unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] MOORE, Lt Gen Harold G [with] GALLOWAY, Joseph L
We Were Soldiers Once.And Young
New York: Random House 1992. Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. 24cm x 15.5cm. Publisher's printed card wraps some scuffing to the laminate here and there but otherwise a near fine copy. 402pp. Internally clean. Black and white charts and diagrams to prelims. A calm informed nothing held back account of one the most influential battles of the early stages of the Vietnam conflict. Moore and Galloway both present for the events of the book Moore in command and Galloway as a correspondent recount step by step the progress of the battle; the first major engagement of the war the first to extensively use helicopters to drop troops and equipment into battle and the first engagment to utilise B-25 bombers as air support. Galloway describes Ia Drang as "The battle that convinced Ho Chi Minh he could win." although that had little to do with the fighting ability of the 7th Cavalry and more to do with the swift tactics lessons the battle offered and the realisation that the US could take but not hold fight but not pursue and they could destroy but only what was on the surface. It changed the course of the conflict for both sides and took many prior strategic techniques back to the drawing board. Uncorrected proofs of this title are quite scarce. Random House unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] Moore, Lt Gen Harold G (Ret) and Joseph L Galloway
We Were Soldiers Once.and Young. Ia Drang--The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam.
New York:: Random House 1992. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. On Nov. 14 1965 the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry commanded by Lt. Col. Moore and accompanied by UPI reporter Galloway helicoptered into Vietnam's remote Ia Drang Valley and found itself surrounded by a numerically superior force of North Vietnamese regulars. Moore and Galloway here offer a detailed account based on interviews with participants and on their own recollections of what happened during the four-day battle. Much more than a conventional battle study the book is a frank record of the emotional reactions of the GIs to the terror and horror of this violent and bloody encounter. Both sides claimed victory the U.S. calling it a validation of the newly developed doctrine of airmobile warfare. Supplemented with maps the memoir is a vivid re-creation of the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War. Photos. Random House, unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] Moore, Lt Gen Harold G (Ret) and Joseph L Galloway
We Were Soldiers Once.and Young. Ia Drang--The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam.
New York:: Random House 1992. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. On Nov. 14 1965 the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry commanded by Lt. Col. Moore and accompanied by UPI reporter Galloway helicoptered into Vietnam's remote Ia Drang Valley and found itself surrounded by a numerically superior force of North Vietnamese regulars. Moore and Galloway here offer a detailed account based on interviews with participants and on their own recollections of what happened during the four-day battle. Much more than a conventional battle study the book is a frank record of the emotional reactions of the GIs to the terror and horror of this violent and bloody encounter. Both sides claimed victory the U.S. calling it a validation of the newly developed doctrine of airmobile warfare. Supplemented with maps the memoir is a vivid re-creation of the first major ground battle of the Vietnam War. Photos. Random House, unknown
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[Vietnam War Literature] Marshall, SLA S L A
West to Cambodia.
<p>New York:: Cowles 1968. First Printing of the First Edition. A Very Good plus copy with previous owner last name stamp on front and rear endpapers in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. General Marshall attended four wars and with a journalist's eye for detail documented numerous major military operations in over 30 books interviewing participants. This battle re-enactment follows the calamitous fighting in three different U.S. operations along a 125 mile long stretch of border land separating Vietnam and Cambodia. Illustrated with photos.</p> Cowles, hardcover
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[VIETNAM WAR] AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
What Has Thieu Done For You . Do We Stake Our National Honor On This Man
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee N.d. 1973-74. Poster. Offset lithograph; 22" x 17" printed in two colors on newsprint. Horizontal and vertical fold-lines; mild toning to paperstock; Very Good B. A.F.S.C. imprint lower left; printer's bug lower right. Dated from context. <br /> <br /> An anti-Thieu poster from the final two years of the Vietnam War produced after the main body of American troops had left Indochina and before the fall of Saigon. The poster calls for the defunding of President Thieu's repressive regime in South Vietnam accusing him of building a police state while at the same time enabling the heroin trade carried on by his lieutenants. Quite ephemeral and in very nice condition. American Friends Service Committee unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] KRUEGER, Carl
Wings of The Tiger
New York: Frederick Fell 1966. First Edition. First Printing. Special Limited Edition number of copies unknown. 8vo. 21cm x 14cm. Publisher's full black leather titled in gilt to spine with decorative gilt ruling to the front board. Clean and handsome. In a black cloth slipcase duplicating the design of the dustjacket for the trade edition. Inscribed on an inserted handmade paper limitation page with some a rather lavish gold ink limitation statement by the author and his wife:<br /> "Mimi and Marguerite with the deep love and affection of The Kruegers Dec. 4 1966 Carl Krueger Ida Krueger"<br /> Billed as "The First Novel of The Vietnam War" and definitely early although according to Newman's bibliographical survey of Vietnam War fiction this rather showy and gung ho novel ranks as the 12th published novel although only 3 novels were published in 1965 whilst the next 25 or so all made na appearance in 1966. This limited presentation issue of the first edition seems completely unknown. Krueger was a decidedly old school author and screenwriter from the post WW2 adventure cinema genre he has writing credits on "Comanche" and "Sabre Jet" both scorching technicolour action movies. He produced the Wyler/Sturges wartime propaganda documentary "Thunderbolt" in 1944 and seems to have had a leaning towards spectacular aircraft movies where the machines occupied as much if not more screen time as the human actors. That certainly seems to have been the intention here it's very aircraft heavyobsessed with the Phantom II and the Vietnamese characters are portrayed as either Machiavellian or offensively stupid. The trade edition dustwrapper bears the statement: "Mr Krueger will personally produce Wings of The Tiger as the greatest air spectacle ever filmed." As far as can be established Mr. Krueger did not. Regardless of anything else it's an interesting illustration of the fact that going into Vietnam with a WW2 mindset was not something exclusively limited to armchair strategists and DC pundits it was also prevalent among those writing and filming accounts of the conflict. Frederick Fell unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] KRUEGER, Carl
Wings of the Tiger: A Novel
New York: Frederick Fell Inc 1966. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; red cloth with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv2855pp. Some beginning oxidation to the gilt else a fresh very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $5.95 lightly edgeworn with a few tiny tears and some very faint foxing on verso; Near Fine. <br /> <br /> While not "The First Novel of Vietnam" as the front panel copy purports Wings of the Tiger is an early Vietnam War novel centered around the role of the United States Air Force throughout the conflict. The author served in the Air Corps during World War II. 87114. Frederick Fell, Inc unknown
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[VIETNAM]
Sud Viet Nam. Un mois d'offensives et de soulèvements sans précédent
Éditions Giai Phong (Hanoï ?), mars 1968. Plaquette in-12 br. de 96 p. Texte en français accompagné de 8 photographies hors texte. Complet du feuillet d'errata et de la carte en couleurs en dépliant en fin de volume. E.O. documents joints.
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : L15421
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[VILLEBON-SUR-YVETTE - ESSONNE] Collectif
ALBUM PHOTO : CHATEAU DE VILLEBON(-SUR-YVETTE) : MAISON DE CONVALESCENCE MISE A LA DISPOSITION DE M. LE MINISTRE DE LA GUERRE (ALEXANDRE MILLERAND) PAR LE DOCTEUR CHARLES BONNET - [(Hôpital de Classe C) a du être ouvert en complément de l'Hopital Auxiliaire 49 (Maison de Santé du Docteur BONNET) situé au 7, rue de la Chaise à Paris VIIème] MAI 1915 (AUJOURD'HUI CENTRE DE RETRAITES DES PÈRES LAZARISTES)
Villebon-sur-Yvette 1915 -in-4 plein-veau 1 album, reliure plein veau havane marbré in-quarto à l'italienne (28,5 x 19 cm), dos 4 nerfs (spine with raised bands) muet (spine - no title), décoration "or" et à froid (gilt and blind stamping decoration), filet perlé "or" en place des nerfs avec un filet à froid et un filet "or" de part et d'autre des nerfs, double filet "or" en tête et en pied, premier plat décoré "or" , titre frappé "or" dans un encadrement d'un filet "or", 4ème plat décoré "or" , d'un filet "or" en encadrement, dentelle "fleuron or" sur les chasses (lace-like gilt decoration on the turn-ins), toutes tranches découpées "à la ficelle", album de 25 photographies albuminées en noir et montées sur onglets de cuir marron du CHATEAU DE VILLEBON-SUR-YVETTE : MAISON DE CONVALESCENCE MISE A LA DISPOSITION DE M. LE MINISTRE DE LA GUERRE (ALEXANDRE MILLERAND) PAR LE DOCTEUR CHARLES BONNET - MAI 1915 (AUJOURD'HUI CENTRE DE RETRAITES DES PÈRES LAZARISTES), 1915 sans nom de photographe,
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[Vilna] Vilna Album Committee
YERUSHALAYIM DE-LITA IM BILD = YERUSHALAYIM DE LITA BE-TEMUNOT = VILNO JERUSALEM OF LITHUANIA IN PICTURES
1st edition. Original illustrated wraps. Folio. 11 pages. 35 cm. In Yiddish and English, captions in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian. We present six pages from various chapters of the Album Jerusalem of Lithuania in pictures. " With 27 illustrations, of various facets of Jewish Vilna (the Gaon, courtyard scenes, war refugees, partisans in the ghetto) . With a brief introductory piece (Yiddish, and English) requesting for contributions to the upcoming Album to be submitted, in the form of photographs of Vilna or subscriptions. The complete work appeared in 1974 with the title Jerusalem of Lithuania, edited by Leizer Ran. Subjects: Jews - Lithuania - Vilnius - Pictorial works. One copy on OCLC (Natl Libr Israel) . Scarce. Wraps lightly soiled, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (YIZ-15-21)
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[Virginia] [Law] [Confederacy] [Civil War]
Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia Passed in 1861 in the Eighty Fifth Year of The Commonwealth
Richmond: William F. Ritchie 1861. Hardcover. Poor. Octavo. 379 pages 1 page blank 76 pages Appendix Index 1 page blank 1 page "Resolutions by the Virginia State Convention July 1 1861" 1 page blank. Marbled paper covered boards with leather spine. Several laws adopted by "The Convention of Virginia in Secret Session in April and May 1861" regarding the Confederacy Army Navy etc. located in the Appendix. Binding is in poor condition. Text block is completely separated from the covers and spine. Title page also detached from the text block. Covers and spine are worn. Tear to the leather lower spine. Contents are complete and clean inside. <br /> <br /> Parrish & Willingham 4385. William F. Ritchie hardcover
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[Virginia] [Law] [Confederacy] [Civil War]
Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia Passed in 1861 in the Eighty Fifth Year of The Commonwealth
Richmond: William F. Ritchie 1861. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 379 pages Marbled paper covered boards with leather spine. Covers are worn and scuffed. Leather is dry rubbed and chipped head of the spine. Front joint is cracked and the front cover loose but attached. Interior contents lightly toned and clean inside. "E Gooch Amherst CH VA" written on the right front flyleaf. Later owner's name label located top of the spine. Same name written on the the right front flyleaf title page and rear end sheet Thomas B. Robertson Eastwill Virginia. <br /> <br /> Collation as follows 1 page blank pages 1-44 "Appendix. Ordinances Adopted by the Convention of Virginia in Secret Session April and May 1861" pages 45-46 "Convention Between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Confederate States of America" pages 47- 69 "Ordinances Adopted by The Convention of Virginia At the Adjourned Session in June and July 1861" 1 page blank pages 71-73 "Index" 1 page blank 1 page "Resolutions Adopted by the Virginia State Convention July 1 1861" 1 page blank. <br /> <br /> Several laws adopted by "The Convention of Virginia in Secret Session in April and May 1861" regarding the Confederacy Army Navy etc. are located in the Appendix. <br /> <br /> Parrish & Willingham 4385. William F. Ritchie hardcover
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[Virginia] [Law] [Political] [Civil War] [Union]
Journal of the Constitutional Convention Which Convened At Alexandria on the 13th Day of February 1864
Alexandria: D. Turner Printer to the State 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 2 52 pages 2. Original yellow printed stitched wraps recased in a later black cloth binding with black leather corners and spine. Leather is chipped on the spine. Two newer end sheets added front and in the back. Two title pages. Light staining to the outer front title page. Toning and light warping to the text. Illustrated armorial bookplate of Henry Carter Stuart on the front paste down. Stuart served as the 47th Governor of Virginia from 1914 to 1918. D. Turner, Printer to the State hardcover
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[VIVARAIS] - FEYDEL (Joël).-
Joseph, maquisard des Hautes Terres. 2e édition.
2013 Aubenas, Plumes d'Ardèche, 2013, in 8° broché, 331 pages ; couverture illustrée.
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[VIVARAIS] - VILLARD (Sylvain).-
Parcelles d'histoire. Chroniques ardéchoises 1943-1944. Suivies de témoignages inédits.
2000 Coux, Rigaud, 2000, in 8° broché, 313 pages ; illustrations dans le texte ; couverture illustrée.
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[Volozhin] Leoni, Eliezer.
VOLOZ'IN: SIFRAH SHEL HA-'IR VE-SHEL YESHIVAT "'ETS HAYIM" [WOLOZIN]
1st edition. Original illustrated boards, Large 8vo 679, 35, 47 pages. Includes illustrations, facsimiles, map, and portraits. In Hebrew. Title translates as, Wolozin: the book of the city and of the Etz Hayyim Yeshivah. Includes articles in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. Includes bibliographical references. On 17 September 1939, the first day of the Soviet invasion of Poland, Valozhyn was occupied by the Red Army. On 14 November 1939, Valozhyn was incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR. All previously allowed religious studies were forbidden. On the fourth day of Operation Barbarossa, on 25 June, 1941 Valozhyn was bombed, captured by troops of the German Army Group Centre and mostly burned. Several Jews were murdered by German soldiers who entered the town. On the next day, a 12-member Judenrat was appointed by the Gestapo and shortly after Stanislaw Torsky, a member of the Polish National Democrats Endek party with strongly antisemitic views, was appointed mayor. On his second day as mayor, he ordered the arrest of the town doctor along with his daughter, and 10 other Jewish people, who were savagely beaten and shot. On 25 July 1941, Valozhyn was placed under the administration of the newly formed Generalbezirk Weißruthenien of Reichskommissariat Ostland. In August 1941, the Jewish residents of the town, approximately 3500 people, were moved to a Ghetto in the "Aropzu" neighbourhood, along with Jewish residents from the neighboring towns Vishnyeva, Halshany and Ashmyany. The Jews, as well as Russian prisoners in the area, were subjected to forced labour, tortured, underfed, and many of them publicly murdered. Local Christians who were caught having mercy or assisting the Jews in giving food received a similar fate
..On 5 July 1944, Valozhyn was recaptured by troops of the Soviet 3rd Belorussian Front during the Vilnius Offensive. Following its liberation, several Jews who returned openly to Valozhyn were murdered by local townspeople. It was initially raion centre in Navahrudak Voblast (1939), later in Baranavichy Voblast (19391944) and Molodechno Voblast (19441960) before passing to Minsk Region (Wikipedia). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Belarus -- Valozhyn. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ethnic relations. OCLC: 12401126. Previous owners name on endpaper, rear hinge starting, Very Good- Condition (YIZ-20-35)
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[VOSGES, GUERRE 39/45, RESISTANCE] - COLLECTIF -
MEMORIAL 1939-1945 Le long martyrologe Vosgien.
Paris, Les editions Crimée, 2002 ; in-4, 272 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. En bon état (ptes usures).
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[VULGANOLOGIE] - TAZIEFF (Haroun) -
Vingt-cinq ans sur les volcans du globe.
Paris, L'équipe, 1980-1980 ; petit in-4, 117-108 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Très bon état , seul le pelliculage s'en va un peu - 2 volumes - 1 apprentissage (dessins de Pierre Bichet) 2 )volcanologues au travail.
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[Véhicules Militaires Magazine]
VEHICULES MILITAIRES MAGAZINE - N° 46 - Août-septembre 2012
Revue de 66 pages, format 210 x 295 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : LFA-126722594
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[Véhicules Militaires Magazine]
VEHICULES MILITAIRES MAGAZINE - N° 49 - Février-mars 2013
Revue de 66 pages, format 210 x 295 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : LFA-126727780
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[Véhicules Militaires Magazine]
VEHICULES MILITAIRES MAGAZINE - N° 50 - Avril-mai 2013
Revue de 66 pages, format 210 x 295 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : LFA-126727781
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