Virginia Gift

About an American Woman that volunteered in Vietnam teaching English and learning customs and culture post Vietnam war. Talks about how the government treated its people post war and things like that. Very interesting. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

Images by an American Teacher in Vietnam

Hanoi Today

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6 volumes of The History of The Second World War magazines, published by Marshall Cavendish. 

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Illinois

History Of  The Second World War

Author is Joseph Kassabian. Really an excellent read! A personal memoir of the War on Terrorism in Afghanistan. Book is in great shape - I take care of all of my books. #history #paperback #nonfiction #war 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Alabama

Not all war stories are heroic 

The Hooligans of Kandahar

Rick Atkinson

A class of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist’s eye for detail, Rick Atkinson illuminates this powerful story through the lives of three classmates and the women they loved - from the boisterous cadet years, to the fires of Vietnam, to the hard peace and internal struggles that followed the war. The rich cast of characters also includes Douglas MacArthur, William C. Westmoreland, and a score of other memorable figures. The class of 1966 straddled a fault line in American History, and Atkinson’s masterly book speaks for a generation of American men and women about innocence, patriotism, and the price we pay for our dreams. 


The American Journey of West Point's Class Of 1966

The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson. "A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston Globe A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson (author of the Liberation Trilogy) illuminates this powerful story through the lives of three classmates and the women they loved—from the boisterous cadet years, to the fires of Vietnam, to the hard peace and internal struggles that followed the war. The rich cast of characters also includes Douglas MacArthur, William C. Westmoreland, and a score of other memorable figures. The class of 1966 straddled a fault line in American history, and Atkinson's masterly book speaks for a generation of American men and women about innocence, patriotism, and the price we pay for our dreams

The Long Gray Line

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June CL Tan

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

Jade Fire Gold

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Washington

History

The detailed portrait of social change in the North China plain depicts how the world of the Chinese peasant evolved during an era of war and revolution and how it in turn shaped the revolutionary process. The authors spent a decade interviewing villagers and rural officials, exploring archives, and investigating villagers with diverse resources and cultural, traditions, and they vividly describe both the promise and the human tragedy of China's rural revolution.

 

Exploring the decades before and after the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949, they trace the growing economic desperation and cultural disintegration that led to the revolution, the reforms undertaken by the Communist leadership that initially brought economic gains and cultural healing, and the tensions that soon developed between party and peasantry. They show that the Communist antimarket and collectivist strategies which culminated in the imposed collectivization of 1955-56 and the disastrous Great Leap Forward of 1958-60, clashed with cherished peasant cultural norms and economic aspirations. Eventually the party's attack on peasant values and interests, the authors find, produced a rupture that threatened both developmental and socialist goals and destroyed the democratic potential of the revolution at its best.

Chinese Village, Socialist State

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Four Horseman Series

Dexter Filkins

Very good clean tight copy, very good dust jacket. First edition.

New York

From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures, in stunning vignettes, snapshots, and episodes, the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins's work in Iraq was hailed by David Halberstam as reporting of the highest quality imaginable. Now, through Filkins's eyes, we witness the chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, led to the attacks of 9/11, and culminated in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins's camera moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; the days and nights of 9/11 rescue workers. He takes us inside the homes of suicide bombers and into street-to-street combat alongside a battalion of U.S. Marines in Falluja. We meet Iraqi insurgents; an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days; Ahmed Chalabi, who tricked America into war; and Ahmed Shah Masoud, the anti-Taliban rebel killed by Al Qaeda. Like no other book, The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of the war on terror and of the experiences of the people involved, combatants and victims alike. It is a stunning debut: a brilliant, fearless book about one war and, ultimately, about all war.

1st ed. * The Forever War

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Donald L. Miller

Very good clean tight copy. Very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing.

Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award “A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn’t do it. It took Grant’s army and Admiral David Porter’s navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this “elegant…enlightening…well-researched and well-told” (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city “with probing intelligence and irresistible passion” (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than twenty thousand became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg “Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history” (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant’s reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war—the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy.

Vicksburg * 1st ed./1st printing 

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Niall Ferguson

Very good clean tight copy, good dust jacket ,little wrinkles.

Explaining World War I

Studies the origins, financing, and outcome of World War I, and discusses public support, recruiting and retention of soldiers, treatment of prisoners, and related issues

1st/1st * The Pity of War

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Simon Van Booy

Autographed,first edition,first printing.
Tight unread copy, in very good dust jacket. Slight toning.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Novel

In The Illusion of Separateness, award-winning author Simon Van Booy tells a harrowing and enchanting story of how one man's act of mercy during World War II changed the lives of strangers, and how they each discover the astonishing truth of their connection.

 

Whether they are pursued by Nazi soldiers, old age, shame, deformity, disease, or regret, the characters in this utterly compelling novel discover in their, darkest moments of fear and isolation that they are not alone, that they were never alone, that every human being is a link in an unseen chain.



The Illusion of Separateness intertwines the stories of unique and compelling characters who--through seemingly random acts of selflessness--discover the vital parts they have played in each other's lives.

Signed, 1st ed./1st * The Illusion of Separateness

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Colorado

A call to battle and a woman's arms--a bold rebel challenged his legacy and his nation.

War Cry

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Published 1919, 1st Edition - *Poor* condition, binding split open in front, detached page; inscribed by previous owner on title page

New Jersey

Between You and Me

Published 1943 - Ex-library copy with typical internal stamps/markings/borrower card - *Poor* condition, binding essentially broken in front; free end paper detached. Scarce copy

Mike Moran and the Men of the Boise

 "Pick out the Biggest”



No writing within, pages are clean clear crisp. Binding is tight with all pages being intact and present.


Title: The War of the Worlds


Author: H.G. Wells


Publisher: Pendulum Press, West Haven, CT


Binding: Digest sized paperback


Size (approx. width x height): 5.50 x 8.00 inches


Copyright Year: 1974


Edition: Unknown


Book Condition: Very good, slight edgewear


Dust jacket Condition: None


Comments: Comic book style adaptation of the classic book with B&W art

Rhode Island

The War of the Worlds by H G Wells - Now Age Books - 1974

  Small, vintage, paperback volume in G+ condition with quite a bit of staining and other wear to covers/spine but %100 intact inside pages free of any writing/markings etc... 

Tales Of The Green Berets (1966) (Signet First Printing) G+


Published in 1960. 9th printing. Manufactured in the USA. In good condition. No missing pages or tears. No markings on any pages. Comes from a pet free home. Cross posted to other platforms. Most offers are accepted. Feel free to message me if you have any questions! #hardcover #history #Nazi #Germany #Hitler #Adolf #AdolfHitler #nonfiction #war #collectible 

Tennessee

A history of Nazi Germany

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 

Peter Abrahams

Buck Schirner

The book appears brand new and unread with no signs of wear on the cover and pages have no creases on the book 

This work is the utterly original, mesmerizing novel of a man who starts to feel more at home in the past than the present, from the writer Stephen King calls my favorite American suspense novelist.

The Last of the Dixie Heroes

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Mark Owen

Kevin Maurer

The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

Mark Owen is a pseudonym for Matt Bissonnette.

No Easy Day

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Bernard Cornwell

Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, May 1811

Sharpe's Battle

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Caesar’s Gallic War: First Eight Books Of (Julius) Caesar's Commentaries On The Gallic War by David McKay Company, Intro by Edward Brooks Jr. Literally translated with explanatory notes. Copyright 1896. This is an antique/vintage book that’s in excellent pre-owned condition with minimal flaws. 

First Eight Books Of Caesar's Commentaries On The Gallic War

Caesar’s Gallic War

Publications International

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Florida

Learn about World War II's key moments though compelling photographs, facts, and anecdotes.
Covers more than 80 crucial events of the war, such as Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Nazi death camps, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Includes color photographs of important figures, scenes from the battlefields, examples of war propaganda, and many more riveting visual representations to guide you through one of the most important times in history.
144 pages

World War II A Photographic History Easton Press

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Khaled Hosseini

This is a signed first edition first printing that is in new condition! You can see the photos I have listed. If you have more questions or want more photos, you’re more than welcome to message me.(:

Texas

Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. “Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The Kite Runner.”—Newsweek Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.

[SIGNED] AThousand Splendid Suns

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"Half a century has passed since the Vietnam War, and 50 years of novels of novels, films, and music have dramatized and mythologized the controversial conflict. But this book approaches the war in a uniquely personal way, focusing on individual stories of the men and women from every state and Service who fulfilled their duty during the Vietnam War. Their day-to-day experiences are heartbreaking, raw, detailed--and sometimes even humorous. More than 58,000 troops lost their lives in Vietnam. the rest came home to bitterly divided fellow Americans, and the protesters' hostility toward the war spilled over to the warriors. These individual stories give us a glimpse of what the war was like from a ground-level, personal perspective. Our effort here is to recognize and pay tribute to our Vietnam Veterans. It is well past time to welcome these men and women home, to remember their service, and to honor their sacrifices."--Jacket flap.

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Virginia Gift

Hanoi Today

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History Of The Second World War

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The Hooligans of Kandahar

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The Long Gray Line

June CL Tan

Jade Fire Gold

Paul G. Pickowicz; Mark Selden; Kay Ann Johnson; Edward Friedman

Chinese Village, Socialist State

Laura Thalassa

Four Horseman Series

Dexter Filkins

1st ed. * The Forever War

Donald L. Miller

Vicksburg * 1st ed./1st printing

Niall Ferguson

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Simon Van Booy

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War Cry

Harry Lauder

Between You and Me

Frank D. Morris

"Pick out the Biggest”

H G Wells

The War of the Worlds by H G Wells - Now Age Books - 1974

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Tales Of The Green Berets (1966) (Signet First Printing) G+

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Peter Abrahams; Buck Schirner

The Last of the Dixie Heroes

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