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Pan Books, London, 1972. Reprint. Softcover. Fair Condition. Size: 12mo Small. 189 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Edges browned slightly. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city - intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began." "But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind ... or the beginning? Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Britain/UK; ISBN: 0330105736. ISBN/EAN: 9780330105736. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9370. . 9780330105736, Pan Books, 1972, 2, Orbit. Used; Like New. Synopsis: The company has been scattered far and wide in its mission to prepare Faltha for war - now the armies of the Destroyer are near and invasion is imminent. <br /><br />Leith has returned to the city of Instruere . Bearing with him the legendary Jugom Ark , thousands flock to him to fight for Faltha in the coming battle. But Leith struggles to accept their faith in him, and his role as custodian of this sacred artifact. <br /><br />As the land darkens under the shadow of impending battle, the company must strive against treachery and self-doubt - for a great evil approaches.<br /><br /> . 2008. TRADE PAPERBACK., Orbit, 2008, 5, New York, NY: Pinnacle. Very Good Minus. 1979. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. 4 1/4" x 6 3/4" 0523406061 PAPERBACK When Doctor Who lands in London and finds the entire city deserted - except for dinosaurs - he figures something really weird is going on. A group of misguided idealists is at the center of a bizarre plot to reverse Time to a golden era - an era before technology, before pollution, before the hydrogen bomb. Wear at edges, reading creases, some soiling, rubbed with some white showing, light interior browning. ., Pinnacle, 1979, 3, Boston: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. First printing. Pages faintly toned. 2002 Trade Paperback. 210 pp. From an acclaimed young author of Filipino background comes this history told through individual lives. The Caprices revolves around the Pacific Campaign of World War II. In the wreckage of bombed cities and overcrowded prison camps, there were no winners and no conquerors, and no nation truly triumphed. Set in Southeast Asia, Australia, and the United States, these stories bring to life ordinary people who must rely on extraordinary measures of faith and imagination. In “Order of Precedence,” an Indian officer starving to death in a prison camp remembers playing polo during his days in India. In “Folly,” the last days of Amelia Earhart are imagined as the Japanese prepare for war. In “Colossus,” an American veteran in his eighties recalls the Japanese invasion of the Philippines and the infamous death march of 1941. With lyrical prose and searing insight, Sabina Murray brings to light a complex cast of characters. Eloquent, artful, and brimming with raw emotion, these tales capture the gross injustices of war as well as the consequences of survival and the memories that follow. In stories that tell as much about the fluid nature of time as they do about the ghosts that haunt survivors, Sabina Murray establishes herself as a passionate and wise voice., Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002, 3, Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 1984. First Edition Stated . Trade Paperback. Good. 10" x 8 1/2. Swenson, John - Photographs. 96 Pages with Photo Index as well as a General Index. Glossy pictorial wrap-around covers with black and white photography. No defects noted and interior text and photographic pages are near flawless. Illustrated with 81 THEN black and white photographs on the left side, and 81 NOW photos on the right side. Through its long history, spanning over 400 years, Santa Fe, New Mexico has faced many challenges: strife between civil and religious officials of the 17th century, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, a stream of French and Anglo-American merchants via the Santa Fe Trail, and the transfer of sovereignty from Mexico to the United States after the 1846 invasion of U.S. troops. All of these historical developments have left their imprint on the physical appearance of this most fascinating of cities. And there have been inevitable changes in the face of the land and the city. This book takes a look at the 'then' of Santa Fe and guides us into the 'now' of today., Sunstone Press, 1984, 2.5, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944 Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY. 1944. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; wear to head, tail, tips, and board tops and bottoms; soiling to board peripheries. DJ: Fair; missing pieces at head and tail; wear to flap folds and spine shoulders; toning to panels and spine. Blue grained boards and spine with tarnished gilt lettering on the spine. Tinted textblock top; banded head and tail. Internally clean; sound hinges. 278 pp 8vo. This is a WWII novel set in Crete during the German air invasion. A young English nurse in the British Army leads the fight from an ancient labyrinth in the mountains and builds and organization that defies the German occupation. Military action abounds in this story of quenchless heroism that unites fiction and history. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket., Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944, 2.25, New York: MHQ, Inc., 1990. An 11-page article included in the Spring 1990 issue of MHQ, Inc. Other articles in this issue: The Tragedy of Unconditional Surrender; Greek Fire; Apocalypse at Munster;; Berezina; The Norman Invasion of Ireland; Checkmate at Mexico City; "Almost a Miracle" (Gen. Heinz Guderian); The Great Wall of China.. Illustrated Cloth. Very Good/None. 8.5 x 11. Journal Article., MHQ, Inc., 1990, 3, Fine. near perfect, without CD; ships from NYC, 5, Simon & Schuster Australia. Very Good. 6.1 x 1.2 x 9.2 Inches. Paperback. 2019. 416 pages. <br>SUITE FRANCAISE MEETS THE FUGITIVE AS TWO STRANGER S GO ON THE RUN TO OUTWIT THE NAZIS IN 1941 She is a celebrated writer stranded in Paris after her French lover is killed fightin g the German invasion. He is an enigmatic foreigner with a danger ous secret, fleeing Nazi-controlled Austria. Only the war could b ring them together. Armed with a precious first edition of Finne gans Wake and an even more precious stash of Chesterfield cigaret tes to barter with, Eleanor Gorton Clarke joins the sea of refuge es escaping the city for the Spanish frontier. But when a strange r kills two German soldiers to save her life, Eleanor is forced o n the run with her mysterious rescuer, pursued by a vengeful dete ctive from the Wehrmacht. Two strangers from vastly different wo rlds, the unlikely pair despise each other at first. But as the r uthless hunt for the two fugitives escalates and they are forced to become allies to survive, a powerful attraction erupts between them. As their relentless German pursuer begins to close the ne t, a heartbreaking discovery forces the great romantic novelist t o experience something she was supposed to know all about - the t rue nature of love. ., Simon & Schuster Australia, 2019, 3, Simon & Schuster, Australia, 2019. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. SUITE FRANCAISE MEETS THE FUGITIVE AS TWO STRANGERS GO ON THE RUN TO OUTWIT THE NAZIS IN 1941She is a celebrated writer stranded in Paris after her French lover is killed fighting the German invasion. He is an enigmatic foreigner with a dangerous secret, fleeing Nazi-controlled Austria. Only the war could bring them together.Armed with a precious first edition of Finnegans Wake and an even more precious stash of Chesterfield cigarettes to barter with, Eleanor Gorton Clarke joins the sea of refugees escaping the city for the Spanish frontier. But when a stranger kills two German soldiers to save her life, Eleanor is forced on the run with her mysterious rescuer, pursued by a vengeful detective from the Wehrmacht.Two strangers from vastly different worlds, the unlikely pair despise each other at first. But as the ruthless hunt for the two fugitives escalates and they are forced to become allies to survive, a powerful attraction erupts between them.As their relentless German pursuer begins to close the net, a heartbreaking discovery forces the great romantic novelist to experience something she was supposed to know all about - the true nature of love. 407 pages. Pen mark to bottom of page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9781925750621. Inventory No: 259065. . 9781925750621, Simon & Schuster, 2019, 3, London: Bloomsbury, 1988 0747500835. First edition. First printing. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original red cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. xi, 228 pages clean and tight. Photographs on plates. Collectible. In the early hours of I September 1939, German troops crossed the border into Poland. At the same time, in Britain, hundreds of thousands of children rubbed their eyes and climbed from their beds. For many it would be years before they climbed back into them. Within hours, in cities all over the country, long crocodiles of children were making their way to the nearest railway station to board trains that would take them to the safety of the countryside. Two days later, in the homes of 'borrowed parents', they listened as an angry Prime Minister told the world that Britain was at war with Germany. The wartime evacuation exercise in Britain was the biggest movement of people the country had ever witnessed. Now, almost 50 years later, those who took part have found a mouthpiece, many of them for the first time. To compile this unique volume of directly reported history, the author, Ben Wicks - who was himself evacuated from London's dockland - placed letters in newspapers around the world asking ex-evacuees to write to him with their own stories. No Time to Wave Goodbye contains the most moving and revealing of these stories. A linking text by Ben Wicks sketches the history of the evacuation from its planning in the aftermath of World War I to the children's return to their mothers and fathers at the end of World War II. Poignant in the extreme, No Time to Wave Goodbye will move even the most hardened reader to tears. It also serves as a permanent record of the experiences of an army of children who, each tagged with a luggage-label and carrying a gas-mask in a brown cardboard box, were sent away from their families and whose lives were changed for ever. The introduction is by Michael Caine who was himself an evacuee in WWII. ., London: Bloomsbury, 1988 0747500835, 0, Headline, UK, 1994. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 472 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Headline, UK, 1994. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Eduardo is a lonely retiree living on his isolated Montana ranch. His life is peaceful, until one night he is awakened by a fearful throbbing sound and eerie lights in the woods. More mysterious and disturbing events follow over the next few months. Eduardo begins to fear for his sanity and his life, until the terrible night when someone - or something - knocks on his back door...One lovely spring morning in Los Angeles, cop Jack McGarvey is hammered by submachine-gun fire when a madman goes berserk. He barely survives. Jack longs to move his wife and son to a more peaceful place away from the city, but he feels utterly powerless and without prospects. In their hour of desperation, the McGarvey family receives an unexpected inheritance in the shape of a sprawling ranch in one of the most beautiful, peaceful places in the country: Montana. The family sets out from Los Angeles to begin their new life, unaware that the terror-riddled city will soon seem like a safe haven compared to what lies ahead. WINTER MOON is inspired by the author's short novel, INVASION, published under the pseudonym Aaron Wolfe. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Horror; ISBN: 0747242895. ISBN/EAN: 9780747242895. Inventory No: 15080293.. 9780747242895, Headline, 1994, 3, London: Star Books 1984 First Star Paperback Printing ISBN 0-352-31502-4, 1984 GD+ Volume 20 of The Chronicles of Counter-Earth. Cover art by Tony Masero. Targeted for assassination and subsequently kidnapped, Tarl joins up with a troupe of travelling players led by Boots Tarsk-Bit, making himself useful by lifting heavy objects, and developing a great knife-throwing routine with an assistant free woman! Together, they make their way from the Sardar Fairs to the coastal port city of Brundisium, a city in league with the island Ubarate of Cos, and the landing ground forthe great Cosian invasion fleet. Along the way, Tarl discovers that high treason is afoot in the great city of Ar. A lot of contextual humour in this key volume, which brings the reader up to date on current events in Port Kar, and which then kicksoff the final story sequence, which sees civilized Gor aflame with warfare., London: Star Books 1984 First Star Paperback Printing ISBN 0-352-31502-4, 1984, 2.5, New York: Ecco; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2007. 229 pages : illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Expected browning, light foxing. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "A memoir of America's most turbulent, whimsical decade. From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, fascinating glory. An account framed by two wars, it begins with Stone's last year in the Navy and ends in Vietnam, where he was a correspondent in the days following the invasion of Laos. The narrative zips from coast to coast, from days spent in the raucous offices of Manhattan tabloids to the breathtaking beaches of Mexico, and merry times aboard the bus with Kesey and the Pranksters. These accounts of the sixties are riveting not only because Stone is a master storyteller but because he was there, in the thick of it, through all the wild times." -Publisher.. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Ecco; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2007, 4, Earthlight, UK, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 528 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Earthlight, UK, 1999. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Beset by invasion from the east, the empire of Lautun must try to settle its own religious differences, whilst also throwing back the barbarian hordes before they reach the strategic city of Arrandin. The mage council battle for the elder gods, the Aeshta, against the Emporer Rhydden. *** Quantity Available: 3. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0671021893. ISBN/EAN: 9780671021894. Inventory No: 10040375.. 9780671021894, Earthlight, 1999, 3, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 397 pages, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "Ireland's struggle for freedom reaches back much further into the annals of history than most of us can imagine. Since the eleventh century, when legendary king Brian Boru united the chieftains of Ireland to resist Viking invasion, countless individual leaders have fought to preserve and protect Ireland's political and cul-tural autonomy. In a chronicle of unprecedented breadth and authority, For the Cause of Liberty tells the stories of these heroes -- including both men and women, Catholics and Protestants -- who enabled the Irish to free themselves from the yoke of colonial oppression. Journalist Terry Golway reconstructs the entire thousand-year history of Irish nationalism, covering each benchmark event in Ireland's political evolution and presenting a vivid, epic tale of both the famous and unsung patriots who changed the course of Ireland's history. Among these are Wolfe Tone, a leader of the 1798 rebellion who cut his own throat rather than submit to a hangman Kevin Barry, executed at age eighteen rather than turn informer on the eve of independence in 1921 and Bobby Sands, an IRA militant who died on a hunger strike in 1981, calling international attention to the conflict in Northern Ireland. The engaging and admirable story of how the Irish have saved themselves, For the Cause of Liberty is a peerless work of scholarship, and it offers a fresh context for the ongoing discussion of Ireland's political future. / Terry Golway is City Editor and columnist at The New York Observer. He is also a frequent contributor to the Irish Echo, America, American Heritage, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and other national publications. He is the author of Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom and coauthor of The Irish in America, a companion book to the award-winning PBS documentary series." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible., Simon & Schuster, 2000, 5, New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. xv, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "Twelve Desperate Milesis the story of the November 1942 invasion of Axis forces in North Africa consisting of more than 100 ships carrying over 30,000 soldiers, with a spotlight on a little-known aspect of Operation Torch, as it was dubbed: the role of the SS Contessa, the naval oddity that trailed the largest cross-ocean invasion force in the history of the world. Author Tim Brady depicts how General George Patton's legendary mission required an armed naval ship packed full of combustible airplane fuel drums and 900 tons of bombs as well as an assault team to sail twelve miles up a shallow, well-defended Moroccan river, a short flight from the city of Casablanca, which the Allies were prepared to bomb if necessary. In spite of the vast resources of the U.S. forces, it was determined that the Contessa, a banana boat of Honduran registry, was the only vessel with a draft shallow enough to make it up the river. While portraying the ship's journey day-by-day and describing its colorful crew, Twelve Desperate Miles chronicles the overall invasion and its aftermath, as well as the critical but unsung role played by the Contessa." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Crown Publishers, 2012, 4, New York. 1982. December 1982. Knopf. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394530225. 168 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. keywords: Lebanon Israel . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Israel's controversial invasion of Lebanon is the subject of Jacobo Timerman's harrowing book that unsparingly describes the impact of the war both on himself and on his country. Timerman - whose account of his imprisonment and torture in Argentina, PRISONER WITHOUT A NAME, CELL WITHOUT A NUMBER, was a national best seller in 1981 - had been living in Israel with his family since 1979 as this book begins and one of his sons leaves for the front. As the weeks pass and the war grows in intensity - the war that Israel's leaders had announced was to be over in days - Timerman visits the nearly destroyed cities of Sidon and Tyre, and becomes a witness to the carnage inflicted by the Israeli forces, as well as to the demonstrations being held inside Israel against the war. But this highly personal journal is most importantly an attempt to understand and come to terms with the largest issues: that Israel has become an aggressor; that Israel's actions hold the most serious implications for its own people and for Jews everywhere. In Timerman's view, General Ariel Sharon has proved himself a dangerous and cynical, if brilliant soldier, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin emerges as a hypocritical and ruthless chief of state - two men holding great power, pursuing a messianic concept of politics. And although he assails the brutality and terrorist tactics of the Palestine Liberation Organization, he refutes Begin's thesis that every act of aggression against Israel constitutes a continuation of the Holocaust. Finally, he mourns the loss of Israel's unique moral position among nations, as for the first time its government has launched a war that was not a response to provocation. Timerman foresees an erosion of the ethical base on which this remarkable country was founded. inventory #7020 ISBN: 0394530225., 0, London, United Kingdom: Pan Books, 2001. He learned his trade as a correspondent in race riots in America and amid Norther Ireland's first big clashes in 1969; he visited Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970 and went again and again until he left Saigon for the last time by helicopter as the city fell in April 1975; in the 1973 Middle East war he reported from the Golan Height and the Suez front, and he came close to being shot in cold blood by marauding Turkish soldiers during the invasion of Cyprus in 1974. But his greatest moment came on 14 June 1982 when he walked alone into Port Stanley, ahead of the British landing force, in pursuit of a last great scoop. This book is the story of self-confessed coward: a writer with heroic ambitions who found hmself recording the doings of heroes when he understood that he did' nt have what it took to be a hero himself. It should be an inspiration to faint-hearted adventurers everywhere. Illustrated. Cover of slight reases to cover.. 1st Pan Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback., Pan Books, 2001, 3, Pan Macmillan. Very Good. 230mm / 155mm. Paperback. 2018. 768 pages. <br>The saga that has enthralled the millions of reade rs of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End now continue s with Ken Follett's magnificent, gripping A Column of Fire.Chris tmas 1558, and young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to f ind his world has changed.The ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathe dral look down on a city torn by religious hatred. Europe is in t urmoil as high principles clash bloodily with friendship, loyalty and love, and Ned soon finds himself on the opposite side from t he girl he longs to marry, Margery Fitzgerald. Then Elizabeth Tud or becomes queen and all of Europe turns against England. The shr ewd, determined young monarch sets up the country's first secret service to give her early warning of assassination plots, rebelli ons and invasion plans. Elizabeth knows that alluring, headstrong Mary Queen of Scots lies in wait in Paris. Part of a brutally am bitious French family, Mary has been proclaimed the rightful rule r of England, with her own supporters scheming to get rid of the new queen. Over a turbulent half-century, the love between Ned an d Margery seems doomed, as extremism sparks violence from Edinbur gh to Geneva. With Elizabeth clinging precariously to her throne and her principles, protected by a small, dedicated group of reso urceful spies and courageous secret agents, it becomes clear that the real enemies - then as now - are not the rival religions. Th e true battle pitches those who believe in tolerance and compromi se against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone e lse - no matter the cost. ., Pan Macmillan, 2018, 3, Penguin Books. Very Good. 6.04 x 1.17 x 9.18 inches. Paperback. 2007. 512 pages. <br>Coming from The Penguin Press in February 2009, Th omas E. Ricks's The Gamble Thomas E. Ricks 's #1 New York Times bestseller, Fiasco, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq. Now Ricks has picked up where Fiasco left off-Iraq, lat e 2005. With more newsbreaking information, including hundreds of hours of interviews with top U.S. officials who were on the grou nd during the surge and beyond, The Gamble is the natural compani on piece to Fiasco, and the two are sure to become the definitive examinations of what ultimately went wrong in Iraq. Editorial R eviews Review Fiasco is a more strongly worded title than you might expect a seasoned military reporter such as Thomas E. Ricks to use, accustomed as he is to the even-handed style of daily newspaper journalism. But Ricks, the Pentagon corresponden t for the Washington Post and the author of the acclaimed account of Marine Corps boot camp, Making the Corps (released in a 10th anniversary edition to accompany the paperback release of Fiasco) , has written a thorough and devastating history of the war in Ir aq from the planning stages through the continued insurgency in e arly 2006, and he does not shy away from naming those he finds re sponsible. His tragic story is divided in two. The first part--th e runup to the war and the invasion in 2003--is familiar from boo ks like Cobra II and Plan of Attack, although Ricks uses his many military sources to portray an officer class that was far more s keptical of the war beforehand than generally reported. But the h eart of his book is the second half, beginning in August 2003, wh en, as he writes, the war really began, with the bombing of the J ordanian embassy and the emergence of the insurgency. His stronge st critique is that the U.S. military failed to anticipate--and t hen failed to recognize--the insurgency, and tried to fight it wi th conventional methods that only fanned its flames. What makes h is portrait particularly damning are the dozens of military sourc es--most of them on record--who join in his critique, and the tho usands of pages of internal documents he uses to make his case fo r a war poorly planned and bravely but blindly fought. The paper back edition of Fiasco includes a new postscript in which Ricks l ooks back on the year since the book's release, a year in which t he intensity and frequency of attacks on American soldiers only i ncreased and in which Ricks's challenging account became accepted as conventional wisdom, with many of the dissident officers in h is story given the reins of leadership, although Ricks still find s the prospects for the conflict grim. --Tom Nissley A Fiasco, a Year Later With the paperback release of Thomas Ricks's Fiasco, a year after the book became a #1 New York Times bestseller and an influential force in transforming the public perception (and t he perception within the military and the civilian government as well) of the war in Iraq, we asked Ricks in the questions below t o look back on the book and the year of conflict that have follow ed. On our page for the hardcover edition of Fiasco you can see o ur earlier Q&A with Ricks, and you can also see two lists he prep ared for Amazon customers: his choices for the 10 books for under standing Iraq that aren't about Iraq, a collection of studies of counterinsurgency warfare that became surprisingly popular last y ear as soldiers and civilians tried to understand the nature of t he new conflict, and, as a glimpse into his writing process, a pl aylist of the music he listened to while writing and researching the book. : When we spoke with you a year ago, you sa id that you thought you were done going back to Baghdad. But that dateline is still showing up in your reports. How have things ch anged in the city over the past year? Thomas E. Ricks: Yes, I h ad promised my wife that I wouldnÂ't go back. Iraq was taking a t oll on both of us--I think my trips of four to six weeks were har der on her than on me. But I found I couldn't stay away. The Ir aq war is the most important event of our time, I think, and will remain a major news story for years to come. And I felt like eve rything I had done for the last 15 years--from deployments I'd co vered to books and military manuals IÂ'd read (and written)--had prepared me to cover this event better than most reporters. So I made a deal with my wife that I would go back to Iraq but would n o longer do the riskiest things, such as go on combat patrols or on convoys. I used to have a rule that I would only take the risk s necessary to get the story. Now I don't take even those risks i f I can see them, even if that means missing part of a story. Als o, I try to keep my trips much shorter. How is Baghdad differen t? It is still a chaotic mess. But it doesn't feel quite as Hobbe sian as it did in early 2006. That said, it also feels a bit like a pause--with the so-called surge, Uncle Sam has put all his chi ps on the table, and the other players are waiting a bit to see h ow that plays out. : One of the remarkable things ove r the past year for a reader of Fiasco has been how much of what your book recommends has, apparently, been taken to heart by the military and civilian leadership. As you write in your new postsc ript to the paperback edition, the war has been turned over to th e dissidents. General David Petraeus, who was one of the first to put classic counterinsurgency tactics to use in Iraq, is now the top American commander there, and he has surrounded himself with others with similar views. What was that transformation like on the inside? Ricks: I was really struck when I was out in Baghda d two months ago at how different the American military felt. I u sed to hate going into the Green Zone because of all the unreal h appy talk I'd hear. It was a relief to leave the place, even if b eing outside it (and contrary to popular myth, most reporters do live outside it) was more dangerous. There is a new realism in the U.S. military. In May, I was getting a briefing from one offi cial in the Green Zone and I thought, Wow, not only does this bri efing strike me as accurate, it also is better said than I could do. That feeling was a real change from the old days. The other thing that struck me was the number of copies I saw of Fiasco as I knocked around Iraq. When I started writing it, the title was controversial. Now generals say things to me like, Got it, unders tand it, agree with it. I am told that the Army War College is ma king the book required reading this fall. : And what are its prospects at this late date? Ricks: The question remain s, Is it too little too late? It took the U.S. military four year s to get the strategy right in Iraq--that is, to understand that their goal should be to protect the people. By that time, the Ame rican people and the Iraqi people both had lost of lot of patienc e. (And by that time, the Iraq war had lasted longer than America n participation in World War II.) Also, it isn't clear that we ha ve enough troops to really implement this new strategy of protect ing the people. In some parts of Baghdad where U.S. troops now ha ve outposts, the streets are quieter. Yet we're seeing more viole nce on the outskirts of Baghdad. And the cities of Mosul and Kirk uk make me nervous. I am keeping an eye on them this summer and f all. The thing to watch in Iraq is whether we see more tribes m aking common cause with the U.S. and the Iraqi government. How lo ng will it last? And what does it mean in the long term for Iraq? Is it the beginning of a major change, or just a prelude to a bi g civil war? : You've been a student of the culture o f the military for years. How has the war affected the state of t he American military: the redeployments, the state of Guard and R eserves troops and the regular Army and Marines, and the relation ship to civilian leadership? Ricks: I think there is general ag reement that there is a huge strain on the military. Essentially, one percent of the nation--soldiers and their families--is carry ing the burden. We are now sending soldiers back for their third year-long tours. We've never tried to fight a lengthy ground war overseas with an all-volunteer force. Nor have we ever tried to o ccupy an Arab country. What the long-term effect is on the mili tary will depend in part on how the war ends for us, and for Iraq . But I think it isn't going to be good. Today I was talking to a retired officer and asked him what he was hearing from his frien ds in Iraq about troop morale. It's broken, he said. Meanwhile, h e said, soldiers he knows who are back home from Iraq wonder why they were there. Not everyone is as morose as this officer, but t he trend isn't good. : You quote Gen. Anthony Zinni i n your postscript as saying the U.S. is drifting toward containme nt in Iraq. What does containment of what will likely remain a ve ry hot conflict look like? You've written in your postscript and elsewhere that you think we are only in act III of a Shakespearea n tragedy. I wouldn't describe Shakespeare's fifth acts as partic ularly well contained. Ricks: I agree with you. Containment wou ld mean some sort of stepping back from the war, probably beginni ng by halving the American military presence. You'd probably stil l have U.S. troops inside Iraq, but disengaged from daily fightin g. Their goals would be negative ones: prevent genocide, prevent al Qaeda from being able to operate in Iraq, and prevent the war from spreading to outside Iraq. (This was laid out well in a rece nt study by James Miller and Shawn Brimley, readable at http://ww w.cnas.org/en/cms/?368.) Containment probably would be a messy and demoralizing mission. No one signs up in the U.S. military to stand by as innocents are slaughtered in nearby cities. Yet that might be the case if we did indeed move to this stance and a ful l-blown civil war (or a couple) ensued. And there surely would be refugees from such fighting. Either they would go to neighboring countries, and perhaps destabilize them, or we would set up refu gee catchment areas, as another study, by the Brookings Institute , proposed. The open-ended task of guarding those new refugee cam ps likely would fall to U.S. troops. The more you look at Iraq, the more worrisome it gets. As I noted in the new postscript in the paperback edition, many strategic experts I talk to believe t hat the consequences of the Iraq war are going to be worse for th e United States than was the fallout from the Vietnam War. Amaz on.com: A year and a half is a long time, but let's say that we h ave a Democratic president in January 2009: President Clinton, or Gore, or Obama. What prospect would a change in administration h ave for a new strategic opening? Or would the new president likel y wind up like Nixon in Vietnam, owning a war he or she didn't be gin? Ricks: Not such a long time. President Bush has made his m ajor decisions on Iraq. Troop levels are going to have to come do wn next year, because we don't have replacements on the shelf. So the three big questions for the U.S. government are going to be: How many troops will be withdrawn, what will be the mission of t hose who remain, and how long will they stay? Those questions are going to be answered by the next president, not this one. My g ut feeling is the latter: I think we are going to have troops in Iraq through 2009, and probably for a few years beyond that. Inde ed, I wouldn't be surprised if U.S. troops were there in 15 years . But as I say in Fiasco, that's kind of a best-case scenario. Review Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essenti al reading. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The best accou nt yet of the entire war. -Vanity Fair Review Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading. -Michiko Kaku tani, The New York Times The best account yet of the entire war. -Vanity Fair About the Author Thomas E. Ricks is The Washingto n Post's senior Pentagon correspondent, where he has covered the U.S. military since 2000. Until the end of 1999, he held the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for sev enteen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for na tional reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of Making the Corps and A Soldier's Duty. </div ., Penguin Books, 2007, 3, Pen & Sword Military, 2013. Very good/Very good. 8vo. 240 x 160mm, 219 pages. B/w photos, maps. Book condition: Very good, clean red boards, tight binding, no inscriptions. Jacket condition: Very good, clean, bright, not faded, not creased, not price-clipped, minor upper edge rubbing. Comments: An excellent history of the first clash in Operation Barbarossa during the Nazi invasion of Russia. The Russian Army held the Citadel in the city for a week despite intense artillery barrage and constant attacks.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Pen & Sword Military, 2013, 3, Harmondsworth. Middlesex.: Pelican Penguin, 1972. Contrary to popular belief town planning did not start with the Carden Cities movement. In this study the authors discuss contribtuions to urban development in Britain from before the Roam invasion to the end of the nineteenth century. They show how Edward I founded Caernarvon with a vigour unmatched by our new-town planners; how Wren and Evelyn, influenced by Renaissance ideals, planned to rebuild London after the Great Fire; how Beau Nash made Bath the epitome of a holiday resport; and how Robert Owen looked after his workers at New Lanark. Illustrated. Couple of creases and slight wear to cover.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). 1st Pelican Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback., Pelican Penguin, 1972, 2.5, Paperback / softback. New. With their farm now in the hands in the bank, Dorothy, Uncle Henry and Aunt Em have decided to live in Oz forevermore. But when news of an evil invasion reaches them, they must rush back to Ozma's side to face certain destruction together., 6, London, United Kingdom: Pan Books, 2001. He learned his trade as a correspondent in race riots in America and amid Norther Ireland's first big clashes in 1969; he visited Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970 and went again and again until he left Saigon for the last time by helicopter as the city fell in April 1975; in the 1973 Middle East war he reported from the Golan Height and the Suez front, and he came close to being shot in cold blood by marauding Turkish soldiers during the invasion of Cyprus in 1974. But his greatest moment came on 14 June 1982 when he walked alone into Port Stanley, ahead of the British landing force, in pursuit of a last great scoop. This book is the story of self-confessed coward: a writer with heroic ambitions who found hmself recording the doings of heroes when he understood that he did' nt have what it took to be a hero himself. It should be an inspiration to faint-hearted adventurers everywhere. Illustrated. Cover of slight creases to cover.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st Pan Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback., Pan Books, 2001, 2.5, New York: Time, inc. [school and library distribution by Silver Burdett Co., 1971. Reprint.. Hard cover. New. No dust jacket.. 200 p. illus. (part col. ) col. maps. 28 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps. [publisher: NYC: TIME LIFE, 1971 reprint, NYC] Hard Cover. Brand new Harback Book. Minor edge & corner rubbing. Table of contents: The Southern Realm, When the Rains Come, In the Great forest, The Muddy Margins of the Sea, Island Hopping, An Insect treasure Trove, Pythons, Rhinos and Others, the Human Invasion. color and b/w photos and maps and charts throughout. AB57, Time, inc. [school and library distribution by Silver Burdett Co., 1971, 6, Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, 1988. 162 pp. Digest format. Very light wear. Cover art by David Shannon. This issue contains: How Spoilers Bleed - a novelette by Clive Barker; and A Wooden Tiger - a novelette by Lucius Shepard. Short Stories: The Country Store by Ronald Anthony Cross; Lafayette Farewell by Ray Bradbury; The Star War by Frederik Pohl; City Boy by Charles L. Grant; While You're Up by Avram Davidson; and Rat Run by Wayne Wightman; along with the usual features, including The Horse Under the Hood - a science article by Isaac Asimov and cartoons by Joseph Farris and ED Arno.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by David Shannon;. 12mo., Mercury Press, 1988, 3, Cornwall, Connecticut: Mercury Press, 1988. 162 pp. Digest format. Very light wear. Cover art by David Shannon. This issue contains: How Spoilers Bleed - a novelette by Clive Barker; and A Wooden Tiger - a novelette by Lucius Shepard. Short Stories: The Country Store by Ronald Anthony Cross; Lafayette Farewell by Ray Bradbury; The Star War by Frederik Pohl; City Boy by Charles L. Grant; While You're Up by Avram Davidson; and Rat Run by Wayne Wightman; along with the usual features, including The Horse Under the Hood - a science article by Isaac Asimov and cartoons by Ed Arno and Joseph Farris.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by David Shannon;. 12mo., Mercury Press, 1988, 3, Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Crest, 1976. 304 pp. Light edge and corner wear with some faint creasing on the front cover and spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Larry Kresek. This anthology contains: Introduction: Why the City?; The Undercity by Dean R. Koontz; New York: A. D. 2660 by Hugo Gernsback; Jesting Pilot by Henry Kuttner; Chicago by Thomas F. Monteleone; Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay by Robert Sheckley; The Vanishing American by Charles Beaumont; Billenium by J. G. Ballard; Total Environment - a novelette by Brian W. Aldiss; Black Is Beautiful by Robert Silverberg; In Dark Places by Joe L. Hensley; East Wind, West Wind - a novelette by Frank M. Robinson; Disposal by Ron Goulart; Gas Mask by James D. Houston; Traffic Problem by Williams Earls; Gantlet by Richard E. Peck; City's End - a novelettet by Mack Reynolds; The Slime Dwellers by Scott Edelstein; and A Happy Day in 2381 by Robert Silverberg.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Larry Kresek;. Paperback Original., Fawcett Crest, 1976, 3, New York: Pocket Books - Perma Books, 1962. (ix) 273 pp. Perma Book M4252. Edge and corner wear with a creased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Richard Powers. This anthology contains: How 2 by Clifford D. Simak; Delay in Transit by F. L. Wallace; The City of Force by Daniel F. Galouye; Whatever Counts by Frederik Pohl; and Bodyguard by Christopher Grimm - pen name used by H. L. Gold.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good-. Illus. by Richard Powers;. Paperback Original., Pocket Books - Perma Books, 1962, 3, New York: Pocket Books - Perma Books, 1962. (ix) 273 pp. Perma Book M4252. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Richard Powers. This anthology contains: How 2 by Clifford D. Simak; Delay in Transit by F. L. Wallace; The City of Force by Daniel F. Galouye; Whatever Counts by Frederik Pohl; and Bodyguard by Christopher Grimm.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good-. Illus. by Richard Powers;. Paperback Original., Pocket Books - Perma Books, 1962, 3, New York: Davis Publications, 1982. 194 pp. Digest format. Volume 6, number 12. Very light wear. Interior illustrations by: Janet Aulisio; Val Lakey; M. Kaspar; Brad Hamann; David Egge. This issue contains a special first printing of FOUNDATION'S EDGE by Isaac Asimov, with commentary throughout by: Arthur C. 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Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Kansas City Star Books, 2011, 2.5, Kansas City Star Books, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Kansas City Star Books, 2011, 3, The Instant New York Times Bestseller"I could not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly written, brilliantly conceived, and impeccably researched. This book not only sparkles but is destined to be a classic!" Jay Winik, bestselling authorFrom the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of Special Report with Bret Baier, comes the gripping lost history of the Tehran Conference, where FDR, Churchill, and Stalin plotted D-Day and the Second World War's endgame. With the fate of World War II in doubt and rumors of a Nazi assassination plot swirling, Franklin Roosevelt risked everything at a clandestine meeting that would change the course of history.November 1943: The Nazis and their Axis allies controlled nearly the entire European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained them modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviet Red Army had been bled white. The path of history walked a knife's edge.That same month a daring gambit was hatched that would alter everything. The "Big Three"Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalinsecretly met for the first time to chart a strategy for defeating Adolf Hitler. Over three days in Tehran, Iran, this triostrange bedfellows united by their mutual responsibility as heads of the Allied powersmade essential decisions that would direct the final years of the war and its aftermath. Meanwhile, looming over the covert meeting was the possible threat of a Nazi assassination plot, code-named Operation Long Jump.Before they left Tehran, the three leaders agreed to open a second front in the West, spearheaded by Operation Overload and the D-Day invasion of France at Normandy the following June. They also discussed what might come after the war, including dividing Germany and establishing the United Nationsplans that laid the groundwork for the postwar world order and the Cold War.Bestselling author and Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier's new epic history, Three Days at the Brink, centers on these crucial days in Tehran, the medieval Persian city on the edge of the desert. Baier makes clear the importance of Roosevelt, who stood apart as the sole leader of a democracy, recognizing him as the lead strategist for the globe's futurethe one man who could ultimately allow or deny the others their place in history.With new details discovered in rarely seen transcripts, oral histories, and declassified State Department and presidential documents from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Baier illuminates the complex character of Roosevelt, revealing a man who grew into his role and accepted the greatest challenge any American president since Lincoln had faced., William Morrow; Illustrated edition (October 22, 2019), 6, New York.: Hyperion Books for Children., 1999. First edition.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1 Black paper over boards. 176 p. Recommended readers ages 10-14, and adults who want to know what their children are doing. Audience: Children/juvenile. 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