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CZC-10664Journaliste grand reporter, l'auteur a vécu sur le terrain la guerre du Viet-Nam à Hue puis pendant l'offensive du Têt. Il nous livre "le récit poignant d'une guerre aveugle (.) Portraits, anecdotes, interviews, récits, commentaires et analyses se succèdent pour nous restituer le drame du plus long et du plus infernal conflit de ce siècle". fort vol in8, 21x15, relié, très bel état intérieur, 340pp + catalogue photographique en fin de volume. Tallandier 1971 ref/259
1993009157New York U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc 1993. 368pp/maps/illus. Biography of General Giap. Like new. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W W Norton & Co Inc hardcover
73830A single-sided flyer for a GI Teach-In held Saturday August 10 1968 at Provo Park in Berkeley California. The flyer features a black and white photographic image of a weary soldier leaning against a tree and smoking a cigarette with the caption: Bring Him Home.<br/><br/>The program for the event advertised G.I. speakers Vietnam veterans an open mic and bands. The flyer states: "During the April 27th Mobilization Against the War servicemen from bases throughout the Bay Area participated in the antiwar actions. This was the first time that active G.I.'s joined with students to protest the war. We must involve these GIs we must encourage their opposition; they are being sent to kill and be killed in a senseless war."<br/><br/>The event was hosted by the Student Mobilization Committee which was formed in 1966 to coordinate opposition to U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam among college and high school students. Originally named The Vietnam Day Committee the SMC organized protests on campuses and in various cities and was one of the first groups that included both soldiers and civilians.<br/><br/>Coverage of the GI Teach-In appeared in the Berkeley Barb Volume 7 Issue 7 August 16-22 1968: "'I've learned two things in Vietnam' said the veteran 'war is hell and the Army sucks.' That was the basic theme of the GI teach-in held last Saturday in Berkeley's Provo Park. The mike was open only to soldiers or ex-soldiers and it had a constant flow of users from the audience. After opening speeches by Don Duncan and some newer faces including Ron Alexander ex-special Forces Dennis Steele ex-101st Airborne and Airman First Class Michael Locks the mike was thrown open. It remained occupied for several hours.Speakers reported that in Vietnam the mood of the soldiers has changed drastically from the early days. Now NCO's and below can denounce the war policy in front of an officer who will at the most turn and leave. All of the speakers agreed that it was of prime importance to give soldiers some indications of support in their antiwar views both on base and off."<br/><br/>This scarce piece is photomechanically reproduced on a 11" x 8 ½" sheet of white paper which is a bit toned with a one-inch closed tear along the right edge; otherwise very good. unknown books
73830A single-sided flyer for a GI Teach-In held Saturday August 10 1968 at Provo Park in Berkeley California. The flyer features a black and white photographic image of a weary soldier leaning against a tree and smoking a cigarette with the caption: Bring Him Home.<br/> <br/> The program for the event advertised G.I. speakers Vietnam veterans an open mic and bands. The flyer states: "During the April 27th Mobilization Against the War servicemen from bases throughout the Bay Area participated in the antiwar actions. This was the first time that active G.I.'s joined with students to protest the war. We must involve these GIs we must encourage their opposition; they are being sent to kill and be killed in a senseless war."<br/> <br/> The event was hosted by the Student Mobilization Committee which was formed in 1966 to coordinate opposition to U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam among college and high school students. Originally named The Vietnam Day Committee the SMC organized protests on campuses and in various cities and was one of the first groups that included both soldiers and civilians.<br/> <br/> Coverage of the GI Teach-In appeared in the Berkeley Barb Volume 7 Issue 7 August 16-22 1968: "'I've learned two things in Vietnam' said the veteran 'war is hell and the Army sucks.' That was the basic theme of the GI teach-in held last Saturday in Berkeley's Provo Park. The mike was open only to soldiers or ex-soldiers and it had a constant flow of users from the audience. After opening speeches by Don Duncan and some newer faces including Ron Alexander ex-special Forces Dennis Steele ex-101st Airborne and Airman First Class Michael Locks the mike was thrown open. It remained occupied for several hours.Speakers reported that in Vietnam the mood of the soldiers has changed drastically from the early days. Now NCO's and below can denounce the war policy in front of an officer who will at the most turn and leave. All of the speakers agreed that it was of prime importance to give soldiers some indications of support in their antiwar views both on base and off."<br/> <br/> This scarce piece is photomechanically reproduced on a 11" x 8 ½" sheet of white paper which is a bit toned with a one-inch closed tear along the right edge; otherwise very good. unknown
1969010947Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1969. 639pp/illus. History of the 1954 Geneva Conference ending the war in Indochina. Light edgewear to dj. Text clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Princeton University Press Hardcover
2012016914Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial 2012. 1139 pages with colour and b/w illustrations. Volume 9 of The Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948 - 1975. Heavy book 2.75kg. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial Hardcover
2012BIB301567Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 2012. Small Quarto Size approx 18x25cm. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Scarce! Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Endpaper maps. B/w maps. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 1139 pages. The Official History of Australia's Involvement in SouthEast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975 . As New. 1st Edition. Hardback. Allen & Unwin hardcover
19942041255Naval Institute Press 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 1/4 inch tear to jacket corner owner bookplate with name inked out on front endpaper. 1994 Hard Cover. xiv 344 pp. 8vo. From the jacket: ''I want to give something back' the author insisted. His counselor at the Vet Center suggested 'You can give the guys in treatment hope. You know what PTSD looks like from both sides. You can tell these guys what it's like and what's different when you get beyond it.' Ron Zaczek had been a good crewchief. He was 'Zack' then: Marine Observation Squadron Three '66-'68; Phu Bai Dong Ha Khe Sanh; 393 missions in Huey medevacs and gunships; 19 Air Medals and a Bronze Star. He'd succeeded in college and in industry. Good marriage two fine kids. Then things began to fall apart. Too much anger depression. Thoughts of suicide. So many missions of mercy and death returning in nightmare and flashback out of control: 'You gotta get us out Scarface. We're burning up!' Marine crewchiefs never lost control! Control was survival and Zack was trained to survive. He entered the Vet Center Outreach Program as a last resort not believing it could help. Farewell Darkness is a probing personal look at war's psychological toll. Told with a vision of healing and hope Zaczek's story captures the passion and idealism he felt as a 19-year-old Marine new to war his pride in doing a job well his fear and perseverance in the face of enemy fire his grief over the loss of friends and the anger and sadness of his homecoming. The reader lives Zaczek's brutal honest journey through war as well as his treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Naval Institute Press hardcover books
2005008984Washington D. C: National Intelligence Council 2005. 660pp plus CD-Rom. Text of declassified intelligence estimates related to Vietnam and South East Asia from 1948-1975. Clean. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No Jacket - Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. National Intelligence Council paperback
1950231831950. Vietnam photographs of Indigenous highland communities urban street life and Western contact likely made in the 1950s or early 1960s before the large-scale arrival of American combat troops in 1965. The group belongs most plausibly to the early U.S. advisory period when American personnel were present in Vietnam from 1950 and increasingly active in South Vietnam after 1955 but still long before the main combat escalation of the war. The juxtaposition of images highlight both upland Indigenous people posed in village or forest-edge settings and small urban views of southern Vietnam in which colonial architecture animal-drawn transport fishing labor and everyday street movement remain visible within the late French and early postcolonial landscape.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 11 silver gelatin photographs each 2.25" x 3" Vietnam likely South Vietnam circa 1950s to early 1960s. Several photographs show Indigenous men women and children standing in open grass or along wooded edges wearing wrapped garments bead necklaces and basketry or carrying poles with one image showing women beside woven baskets in shallow water and another showing a figure working in dense vegetation. Exact ethnic identification is not secure from the photographs alone but the upland dress body adornment and basket forms are consistent with communities from Vietnam's Central Highlands or adjacent southern uplands possibly Jarai Ede or Rhade Bahnar Mnong or Stieng all part of the broader grouping often described in French and later English sources as Montagnard or Degar peoples. Other photographs turn to city and urban scenes with one image showing two women fishing another of a man in an ox-drawn carriage a zoo setting with large cats behind fencing and a formal boulevard view centered on a French colonial civic building that is likely the Saigon Municipal Theatre. The city scenes also fit Saigon where the long-established Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens opened to the public in 1869 formed part of the colonial urban core.<br /> <br /> The posed views of Indigenous highland people and the street scenes of fishermen cart drivers and city residents preserve the way local communities entered the visual record of American presence as subjects observed approached and documented by outsiders attached to the expanding U.S. role in South Vietnam during the 1950s and early 1960s. Light surface wear and minor corner and edge wear; overall very good condition. The combination of Saigon views with photographs of Indigenous upland communities gives the group particular force as a compact record of pre-combat American encounter in southern Vietnam. unknown
1975218893Canberra. 1975. 108pp bibliography. 33.8 x 20.6cm. A very good copy in stapled wrappers. A rambling unfocussed denunciation of both the North Vietnamese regime and the Whitlam Government's decision to withdraw advisers from the Vietnam War. Self-published by a deliberately anonymous presumably aspiring pundit the essay reserves particular scorn for Jim Cairns. An interesting insight into the rhetoric within Australian politics at the time. . unknown
19778001781NY: Knopf 1977. First edition of the author's first book -- and considered to be the best "reporting to come out of the Viet Nam conflict". Two minor bumps to top edge of book. The book went into many printings and had quite a small first printing. Tight clean copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good /Near Fine. Knopf Hardcover
1988009667New York: Greenwood Pub Group 1988. 585pp. Comprehensive. The focus of this historical dictionary is the deepening US military and political involvement in Vietnam Laos and Cambodia during the decades from 1945 to 1975. Text clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. As New/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Greenwood Pub Group Hardcover
This is a near fine two volume softcover set, in illustrated card folders with almost no wear. Completely clean. Illustrated throughout in black & white with some color photographs documenting the well known village of Cu Chi and its' famous tunnels which were made for defensive use during the Vietnam War in the 1960's and 1970's. Text in English, French and Vietnamese. 8" high X 10" wide, 68 & 79 pages. Sold as a set only. This set will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
1967003834Mill Valley CA: East Totem West 1967. Single sided printed poster approximately 585mm x 890mm in size. Slightly curled from being rolled otherwise bright and clean. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Illus. by SP / 4 Vietnam. Double Elephant. Poster. East Totem West Paperback
1999011453Paris France: Indo Editions 1999. 337pp/illus and maps. Detailed history of French Commando units in Vietnam in 1950's. Includes color illustrations of badges and flags. Numerous unit pictures. Text in French. Bottom corner creased. Text clean. 1st Edition. Flex Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Indo Editions Hardcover
200026002Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1557505497 . Second printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Naval Institute Press hardcover books
1965159096China: Xinhua she 1965-1974. An arresting collection of Vietnam war press photographs most dated between May 1965 and December 1967 taken by photographers from the official Chinese and North Vietnamese news agencies. One photograph showing North Vietnamese fishermen drilling with weapons has been annotated by an editor showing how this type of photograph and the accompanying officially approved wording were used by local newspapers to substantiate propaganda copy filed from the front line. Also included are two press dispatches profiling two soldiers commended at the First Awards Ceremony for Heroes of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam each with a portrait photograph. 65 photographic prints each approximately 110 x 150 mm all but one with title and caption serial number and date printed on verso in Chinese. Together with two printed sheets text recto only both 200 x 150 mm and folded horizontally as issued each with c. 120 x 80 mm portrait photograph tipped-in on verso. Housed in grey archival box. Some contemporary red pencil check marks. Photographs bright a few with light staining to white border occasional pinholes and slight creasing lower half of one printed sheet browned. A well-preserved collection. unknown
1969207140Chicago: Carl McIntire 1969. Neatly folded twice horizontally else fine. Double-sided handbill 5-3/8 x 8 in. 13.2 x 21.6 cm. Handbill announcement of a pro-war rally in downtown Chicago sandwiched between the violence at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 and the "Days of Rage" later in 1969. The rally was led by the fundamentalist radio preacher Carl McIntire. The verso is a fiery editorial titled "Surrender" by him. Carl McIntire unknown
One of a series of discussion pamphlets on issues concerned with nuclear disarmament and the dangers of nuclear war. 16 pages. Circa 1965
1967004089Washington D.C: Advanced Research Projects Agency Office of the Secretary of Defense 1967. Hardcover pages xv 556; fully illustrated with b/w photos maps and line drawings; illustrated hardcover; landscape format; blue covers soiled spine ends frayed finger marks on title page new endpapers and rescrimmed o/wise good condition. Extremely Rare. Text and captions in Vietnamese and English. A survey of coastal vessel types in local use mainly wooden hulled and of trading vessels working Vietnamese waters includes: origin/evolution of South Vietnamese boats religious/folklore influences on fishing techniques and equipment construction methods and materials detection clues for stop and search operation registration/identification of vessels and crew classification of wood-hulled boats index of steel-hulled coastal freighters. Nice clean copy. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall folio. Advanced Research Projects Agency Office of the Secretary of Defense hardcover
1968010056New York: MacMillan 1968. 296 pages with several illustrations. The story of the Tonkin War of 1884-1885 and French Imperialist expansion into Vietnam leading to Chinese intervention. Covering the birth pangs of Vietnam. The "Black Flags" were a band of freebooter and soldier's of fortune under the chieftainship of Liu Yung-fu who fought against the French. The martyrs & Mandarins opium French offensives Jen Dupuis Francis Garnier Marquis Tseng the Chinese suzerainty challengedHenri Riviere-Tragedy repeated Hue capitulates rage of Liu Yung-fu. France; days of glory Formosa & Tonking catastrophe the aftermath. Clean. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. MacMillan Hardcover
199959005458Ramsey NJ: Huey Co Inc 1999. Bound in tan and blue cloth with matching dust jackets. A superb two volume set both signed by the author and Colonel Kenneth T. Mertel limited to 500 copies in the first edition. 124 pp. / 164 pp.TIght clean "as new" copies. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Huey Co Inc Hardcover
1963WRCAM55578Hong Kong Saigon Da Nang Pago Pago and other places 1963. Eighty-seven photographs most in color most about 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches including twelve slightly larger photographs laid in. Narrow quarto. Photograph album of black textured cloth gilt label on front board. Photographs in generally nice condition. Very good. An interesting collection of color and black- and-white vernacular photographs taken by an unidentified Navy Midshipman or Marine serving in southeast Asia in the early years of American involvement in Vietnam. Twenty- four images are captioned on the verso often identifying the time and place of the photographs some of which were taken on ship and others on the ground. The majority of the photographs emanate from 1963 either from the caption or a date stamp in the margin of the photographs. They feature street scenes and various buildings in Hong Kong and Vietnam views from the serviceman's ship shots of servicemen gathered in the mess hall views of fishing and various buildings in Pago Pago and more. <br> <br> The captions provide a good cross-section of the nature of the photographs a sampling of which read: "President Diems & Madame Nhus Palace being constructed - They were working on it when I came Feb 1963 August"; "Boulevard going towards Saigon August 63"; "Boats at river front Saigon August 63"; "Company Area V.T.T. Heli. Co. August 1963"; "Da Nang - S. Viet Nam"; "Chinese painting the ship - this is in Hong Kong"; "Bura boat alongside the ship selling goods in Hong Kong"; "One of the boats people live on in Hong Kong. Notice the laundry drying on the top"; "Governor's Home Pago Pago"; "Ships boat fishing party Pago Pago"; and others. The loose photographs feature naval subjects such as the hospital ship U.S.S. Sanctuary an officer named "Hamilton" and two shots of a young man onboard the ship who might be the compiler of the present album. <br> <br> A nice collection of early Vietnam War vernacular photography with useful annotations. hardcover books
A study of airborne warfare analysing significant operations such as the battle for Crete, the allied invasion of Sicily, D-Day and Arnhem, Suez in 1956 and the U.S. Air Mobile Division in Vietnam. With Index and bibliographical references.
