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ARMY CONCEPT TEAM IN VIETNAM APO SAN FRANCISCO 96384Biblio.com

ARMOR ORGANIZATION FOR COUNTERINSURGENCY OPERATIONS IN VIETNAM

African American Military ; VietnamBiblio.com

Black U.S. Army Soldier's Vietnam Era Photo Album 92 Photographs from Virginia and Vietnam late 1960s to early 1970s

1960232781960. Black U.S. Army soldier's photo album documenting home and military life between Virginia and Vietnam in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Black servicemen moved through the formally desegregated Army during the first major U.S. war fought after official military integration. Centered a young black enlisted man the album tracks the life of service through photos at camp soldiers in formation military equipment helicopters and with portraits alongside other soldiers. Though the Korean War was the first U.S. war that was formally desegregated the units still saw unequal integration and opportunity while the Vietnam War marks an era in which a desegregated military was already well established. <br /> <br /> Photo archive of 92 color and black and white photographs ranging from 3.5" x 3.5" to 3.5" x 5" Virginia and Vietnam late 1960s to early 1970s. Mounted in a 10" x 14" spiral bound album. Many images show the compiler in uniform and civilian dress some of the earlier home scenes have handwritten inscriptions en verso. Other images show helicopter scenes in flight and at camp; tent lines wooden barracks; soldiers standing in formation gathering in small groups and posing beside military vehicles and equipment. A Virginia license plate anchors the soldier's home state and the use of quippy captions gives this soldier a voice identifying some individuals by their first name and one particular youthful photo of himself captioned "Dunn will be leaving on January the 1st army But you know he is trying to get out of it said he was going to school. Ha! Ha! Uncle Sam's school" giving a glimpse into the prior aspirations of young Black man right before being drafted.<br /> <br /> Black soldiers entered the Vietnam era military in large numbers at the same time that civil rights struggles Black Power politics and mounting criticism of the war reshaped the meaning of service for African American men. This album gives weight to that history with repeated presence of black men within camps and comradeship with white soldiers. Adhesive residue to corners and backs of some images edgewear to album and leaves and expected handling wear; photographs generally clear and legible. Overall very good condition. This album shows the ground level of Black military experience in the early post segregation Army. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

[VIETNAM] / BORRI, Cristoforo / ASHLEY, Robert (Trans)Biblio.com

Cochin-China: Containing many admirable Rarities and Singularities of that Countrey. Extracted out of an Italian Relation lately presented to the Pope by Christophoro Barri that lived certaine years there

16334531London: Robert Raworth for Richard Clutterbuck 1633. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Tastefully bound in ruled red morocco interior gilt dentelles; title-page dusty and trimmed at upper & outer margins; repaired corner of prelims. Otherwise very good. Rare first edition of the first book on Vietnam in English an eyewitness account of the commerce government and cultural life of Cochin-China central Vietnam written by the Jesuit missionary Cristoforo Borri and first published in Italian in 1631.Borri begins by marking the kingdom's boundaries identifying it as a narrow strip of land between Laos and the South China Sea bordered to the north by Tongking and to the south by Champa. A discussion of the kingdom's fertile land and rich natural resources follows emphasizing the abundance of fruits nuts rice fish textiles domestic stock and "all other things requisite for the entertainement of a man's life." Silk is produced in such quantities that "the baser sort of people wear it dayly." Gold and silver mines abound and "the Wood and Timber of this countrey is the best of all the world." Having piqued his readers' curiosity the author goes on to describe Cochin-China's vibrant commercial climate declaring it free of the red tape and bureaucratic hostility that so often greeted European traders in East Asia.Borri's 1631 Relazione a Jesuit missions letter directed at his Catholic superiors and lay readers was already unusual among works in its genre for devoting a substantial part exclusively to non-religious content. Ashley the translator executed further changes of his own in order to render the present work more attractive to Protestant business interests-most notably by omitting the part where Borri testified to the struggle and success of his Jesuit missions particularly the conversion of Pulucambi province. The translation also cheerfully elides two disastrous episodes in recent European trade with Cochin-China: the 1601 massacre of 23 members of an envoy from the VOC and a similar massacre in 1613 of the crew of an English trading vessel. This attempt to coax England's notoriously skittish merchants into commerce with Cochin-China is also borne out by Ashley's choice of dedicatee: Maurice Abbot the newly-elected governor of the British East India Company. According to Pollard and Redgrave the work's last signature is in 3 rather than 4 because the unsigned title-page was printed as the 4th and final leaf.Cristoforo Borri 1583-1632 a Milanese astronomer lived in Cochin-China from 1617-1622 where he learned enough of the language to hear confession. By 1633 two years after its first appearance his Relatione had been translated into French German Dutch and English. This is the first copy to appear on the market since 1988 Christie's sale of John Fleming 11.08.88.STC 1504; Lach.III v. 3 p. 1250-1266; Dror & Taylor Views of 17th C Vietnam pp. 66. Not in Löwendahl who nonetheless records translations in French German and Dutch. Robert Raworth for Richard Clutterbuck hardcover

Martayan Lan, Inc. · États-Unis20 000,00 $US≈ 16 922,00 €

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