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000431Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office. Book has 347 pages with several fold-out maps. Tiny bit of shelfwear to edge of cover. Section I - Report on Air and Naval Campaigns Against North Vietnam and Pacific Command-Wide Support of the War June 1964-July 1968 by Admiral U.S.G. Sharp USN. Section II - Report on Operations in South Vietnam January 1964-June 1968 by General W. C. Westmoreland USA. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. United States Government Printing Office hardcover
162762Washington DC: The White House 25 January 1972. There will be a total withdrawal from South Vietnam of all U.S. forces The White House press release issued to coincide with Nixon's 25 January 1972 address to the nation in which he revealed that Kissinger was negotiating with the North Vietnamese. This copy has the ownership signature of Clark MacGregor 1922-2003 a senior aide in the Nixon White House. Nixon's speech affirmed America's willingness to withdraw all of its forces within six months of any agreement release POWS and not interfere in free and fair elections in South Vietnam. "The President did not mention that he was proposing a cease-fire-in-place that would leave North Vietnamese troops occupying and governing South Vietnamese territory. Nor did he mention what Kissinger had told Chinese premiere Zhou Enlai at their first meeting: 'If the South Vietnamese government is as unpopular as you seem to think then the quicker our forces are withdrawn the quicker it will be overthrown. And if it is overthrown after we withdraw we will not intervene'" Hughes. Before serving in the White House MacGregor spent a decade in Congress. In 1972 he took over from John Mitchell as head of Nixon's re-election campaign. 2 xeroxed leaves 355 x 220 mm each printed one side only. Old horizontal creases light toning: very good. Ken Hughes "Nixon's Telephone Tapes: 1972" Miller Center University of Virginia. unknown
The superpowers and the acts they commit.
1995012595Boulder CO U.S.A.: Paladin Press 1995. ix 464pp 64 photos maps large format. The secret war between Communists anti-Communists Neutralists Royalists Hill Tribes North Vietnamese Cambodians Thais and the USA! From the French defeat in Indo-China the America via the CIA and it's Special Forces conducted a covert war in Laos. This book tells the gripping story of the operations and battles fought from the 1950s to the 1970s - many of them are described here for the first time. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Paladin Press Hardcover
011457Hong Kong: The Quartermaster Company 80pp/color illustrations. Reprint of South Vietnamese Government book showing uniforms medals insignia and flags of the South Vietnamese Army Air Force Navy Marines. Excellent color illustrations. Text in Vietnamese. Clean. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The Quartermaster Company Paperback
2008010770Minneapolis MN: Zeniith Press 2008. 383pp/illus/maps. Exceptional illustrated history of the Special forces in Vietnam/SE Asia. The maps in the back are superb as well and great overhead pics of base camps including part/full layouts. DJ has light edgewear. Text clean. Scarce. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Zeniith Press Hardcover
1990007071Charlottesville Virginia U.S.A.: Howell Pr 1990. 383pp/illus/maps. Exceptional illustrated history of the Special forces in Vietnam/SE Asia. The maps in the back are superb as well and great overhead pics of base camps including part/full layouts DJ has light edgewear. Text clean. Scarce. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good . Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Howell Pr Hardcover
011131Harrisburg Pennsylvania U.S.A.: Stackpole Books 1961. 322 pages/illus/maps. A classic account of the Indochina war in Vietnam from the Japanese occupation in World War II to the French Colonial control and the eventual American involvement. Illustrated with photographs drawings maps and the endpapers have an area map of Indochina with a glossary an appendix and bibliography. Text clean. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stackpole Books Hardcover
20051092Avocus Publishing 2005. Hardcover. Very good. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has light wear. Signed and dated by the author on title page. Avocus Publishing hardcover
19745000339Washington: National Academy of Sciences 1974. Bound in stiff green wraps stamped in black and dark green. A handsome tight copy of this massive book 275 pages with eight maps in the rear pocket as called for. Scarce in this protected condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good /No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. National Academy of Sciences Paperback
1985285NCA Convention 1985. Paperback. Good. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has some wear a small tear on top front edge a light large crease in upper right front corner and a small crease in upper left rear corner. Pages have a light crease in upper right corner. First two pages have a small crease in lower right corner. Signed and inscribed by one of the co-authors Mary McDaries Short to former owner on front endpaper. First printing. NCA Convention paperback
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to upper edge. 372pp. The story of Kim Phuc, the 9 year old Vietnamese girl burned by napalm in 1972 and whose photograph hit the front pages all over the world which was instrumental in ending the Vietnam War.
1985Mil0014New York, Gallery Books, 1985. 263 S., mit zahlr. meist farb. Abb., Einband gering berieben und an Ecken teils leicht bestoßen, ansonsten wohlerhalten Lex. 8° Buch Pappband
19697991McKay, New York 1969. X, 245 p. Cloth with dust jacket. Slight traces of use. Dust jacket a bit rubbed. Good copy.
1993008500Westport Connecticut U.S.A.: Praeger 1993. 179pp/illus/maps. Tells the true story of the saga of the gallant 2/12th Cavalry during Tet 1968. This is a unique book in the annals of military history because in it the mistakes of command and of the system at all levels are not only told they are acknowledged by the officers who were present. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Praeger hardcover
1971012588Boston MA: Beacon Press 1971. Vol 1 - 632 pages Vol 2 - 834 pages Vol 3 - 746 pages Vol 4 - 687 pages. Complete publication of the Pentagon Papers as entered into the Senate record by Senator Mike Gravel. Text clean no marks. 1st American Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket -Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Beacon Press Paperback
21291<p>William Bundy's 5-volume set of the <i>"Senator Gravel Edition"</i> of the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> with annotations marginal notes and two legal-size pages with handwritten notes arranged chronologically.</p> <b>VIETNAM WAR.</b>Books. <i>The Pentagon Papers</i>. Boston: Beacon Press 1971-1972. First Editions. Five paperback books volumes I-IV in green printed covers volume V in orange. 5¾ x 9 inches each. Pages varies by volume. Volume V <i>Critical Essays</i> edited by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn has a Beacon Press review copy slip taped to the half-title and an address label paperclipped to the same page. The label is addressed to Bundy as editor of <i>Foreign Affairs</i> and has a handwritten date <i>"9/25/72."</i><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Defense Secretary Robert McNamara commissioned a massive study later called the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> in 1967 and appointed Pentagon arms control director Leslie Gelb as the project's supervisor. Gelb hired 36 military officers civilian policy experts and historians to write the study's monographs. The <i>Pentagon Papers</i>included 4000 pages of actual documents from the years 1945–67. Daniel Ellsberg with the aid of his friend Anthony Russo leaked most of the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> to <i>New York Times</i>reporter Neil Sheehan who began publishing excerpts on June 13 1971. Ellsberg later said that the documents "demonstrated unconstitutional behavior by a succession of presidents the violation of their oath and the violation of the oath of every one of their subordinates." Portions of the "Papers" were subsequently published by Beacon Press. The present copy is William Bundy's set of that edition.</p><p>The <i>Pentagon Papers</i> revealed steps the Johnson and Nixon administrations had taken to escalate the war in Vietnam without informing the public. President Nixon argued that Ellsberg was guilty of felony treason under the 1917 Espionage Act because he had no authority to publish classified documents. Though the <i>Times</i> had been advised not to publish they did so claiming the First Amendment right to publish information essential to citizens' understanding of their government. Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell obtained a federal court injunction forcing the <i>Times</i> to cease publication. After the <i>Times</i> appealed the case reached the Supreme Court. A separate case involving the <i>Washington Post's</i>publication of articles based on Ellsberg's leaks also reached the highest court. In June 1971 the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the injunctions were unconstitutional. As Senator Mike Gravel writes in the introduction "We were told that we had to fight on the continent of Asia so that we would not have to battle on the shores of America. One can accept these arguments only if he has failed to read the Pentagon Papers."</p><p><b>William Putnam Bundy</b> 1917-2000 graduated from Yale University and worked as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1950s. He had a long distinguished service government in the CIA and in the Defense Department. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in March 1964. His brother McGeorge Bundy was Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Kennedy and Johnson from 1961-1966. Both are considered primary architects of America's involvement in Vietnam. In <i>The Best and the Brightest</i> David Halberstam stated that during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations William Bundy's name "would probably be on more pieces of paper dealing with Vietnam over a seven-year period than anyone else's." The publication of <i>The Pentagon Papers</i> represented something of a personal defeat for Bundy who at the time had a 1100-page unfinished manuscript in which he selectively paraphrased from classified papers in his possession. The manuscript was rendered unpublishable by the appearance of these volumes.</p><p><b>McGeorge Bundy</b> 1919-1996 brother of William Bundy was one of President Kennedy's closest advisors on national security and he continued to fill that role for President Johnson during the period of escalation of the Vietnam War. He left government service in 1966 to head the Ford Foundation and then returned to university teaching and writing in 1979.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Very Good. Some wear to covers.</p> paperback
197121291<p>William Bundy's 5-volume set of the <i>"Senator Gravel Edition"</i> of the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> with annotations marginal notes and two legal-size pages with handwritten notes arranged chronologically.</p> <b>VIETNAM WAR.</b>Books. <i>The Pentagon Papers</i>. Boston: Beacon Press 1971-1972. First Editions. Five paperback books volumes I-IV in green printed covers volume V in orange. 5¾ x 9 inches each. Pages varies by volume. Volume V <i>Critical Essays</i> edited by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn has a Beacon Press review copy slip taped to the half-title and an address label paperclipped to the same page. The label is addressed to Bundy as editor of <i>Foreign Affairs</i> and has a handwritten date <i>"9/25/72."</i><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Defense Secretary Robert McNamara commissioned a massive study later called the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> in 1967 and appointed Pentagon arms control director Leslie Gelb as the project's supervisor. Gelb hired 36 military officers civilian policy experts and historians to write the study's monographs. The <i>Pentagon Papers</i>included 4000 pages of actual documents from the years 1945–67. Daniel Ellsberg with the aid of his friend Anthony Russo leaked most of the <i>Pentagon Papers</i> to <i>New York Times</i>reporter Neil Sheehan who began publishing excerpts on June 13 1971. Ellsberg later said that the documents "demonstrated unconstitutional behavior by a succession of presidents the violation of their oath and the violation of the oath of every one of their subordinates." Portions of the "Papers" were subsequently published by Beacon Press. The present copy is William Bundy's set of that edition.</p><p>The <i>Pentagon Papers</i> revealed steps the Johnson and Nixon administrations had taken to escalate the war in Vietnam without informing the public. President Nixon argued that Ellsberg was guilty of felony treason under the 1917 Espionage Act because he had no authority to publish classified documents. Though the <i>Times</i> had been advised not to publish they did so claiming the First Amendment right to publish information essential to citizens' understanding of their government. Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell obtained a federal court injunction forcing the <i>Times</i> to cease publication. After the <i>Times</i> appealed the case reached the Supreme Court. A separate case involving the <i>Washington Post's</i>publication of articles based on Ellsberg's leaks also reached the highest court. In June 1971 the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the injunctions were unconstitutional. As Senator Mike Gravel writes in the introduction "We were told that we had to fight on the continent of Asia so that we would not have to battle on the shores of America. One can accept these arguments only if he has failed to read the Pentagon Papers."</p><p><b>William Putnam Bundy</b> 1917-2000 graduated from Yale University and worked as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1950s. He had a long distinguished service government in the CIA and in the Defense Department. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in March 1964. His brother McGeorge Bundy was Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to Kennedy and Johnson from 1961-1966. Both are considered primary architects of America's involvement in Vietnam. In <i>The Best and the Brightest</i> David Halberstam stated that during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations William Bundy's name "would probably be on more pieces of paper dealing with Vietnam over a seven-year period than anyone else's." The publication of <i>The Pentagon Papers</i> represented something of a personal defeat for Bundy who at the time had a 1100-page unfinished manuscript in which he selectively paraphrased from classified papers in his possession. The manuscript was rendered unpublishable by the appearance of these volumes.</p><p><b>McGeorge Bundy</b> 1919-1996 brother of William Bundy was one of President Kennedy's closest advisors on national security and he continued to fill that role for President Johnson during the period of escalation of the Vietnam War. He left government service in 1966 to head the Ford Foundation and then returned to university teaching and writing in 1979.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Very Good. Some wear to covers.</p> paperback books
1987010863New York NY U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group 1987. 420pp/illus/maps. The men who flew in America's secret war in Laos. Overall a clean tight copy. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Crown Publishing Group Hardcover
1987006418New York NY U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group 1987. 420pp/illus/maps. The men who flew in America's secret war in Laos. Slight shelf wear to bottom of boards and DJ shows evidence of minor rubbing. Overall a clean tight copy. . 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Crown Publishing Group hardcover
1987006735New York NY U.S.A.: Crown Publishing Group 1987. 420pp/illus/maps. The men who flew in America's secret war in Laos. Slight shelf wear to bottom of boards and DJ shows evidence of minor rubbing. Overall a clean tight copy. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Crown Publishing Group Hardcover
1983012605Austin Texas U.S.A.: Univ of Texas Pr 1983. 873pp. Government documents trace secret missions from 1964 to 1968 that sought to establish peace talks between North Vietnam and the U.S. Clean. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ of Texas Pr Hardcover
1998019967Melbourne VIC Australia: General Aviation Maintenance Pty Ltd 1998. Illustrated laminated boards. Signed by both authors on the front free endpaper. 249 pages with b/w illustrations. . SIGNED. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. General Aviation Maintenance Pty Ltd Hardcover
011370Fairchild Hiller Corporation. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Camouflage boards on this square quarto 11-3/4" X 11-3/4" unpaginated. Many illustrations both color and b&w. Parchment paper used for map of southeast Asia in red and for song 'The Red River Valley'. Edges have some rubbing and a little chipping wear and rear board shows a slight bit of rubbing. Top page edges have damp stain extending into margin extending 1/4" across some pages and last page has damp stain on both sides about 3". Sturdy and usable copy of scarce book. <br/> <br/> Fairchild Hiller Corporation hardcover
Contents: Westinghouse ad features photo of the new Connecticut Yankee plant; Nice Cadillac color photo ad; Adam Clayton Powell; Photo of RFK preparing speech; Autocide; Group photo of Reagan, Nixon, Romney and Percy; Jim Garrison; Wharlest Jackson; Henry R. Luce; Vietnam War; Riots in Aden; South Korea - hope in the Hermit Kingdom; Nice ad for Chrysler 300; Photo of Beatles in moustaches; Helicopter traffic reporters Ross & Lange; Iraq Petroleum Co.; Photo of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) and family; Nice Ford Mustang ad on back cover; and much more. Unmarked. Above-average wear. A sound copy. Book