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AMERICAN COMMISSAR
Author was a Hungarian communist in the U.S.; served as commissar and historian of an International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War; disillusioned, he quit the Party and returned to…
KOREA AND THE FALL OF MACARTHUR
A Precis in Limited War
Beginning with the Potsdam conference and following the course of the war through 1951, Higgins examines the specific nature of a war that was both limited in scope and popularity…
THE WOUND WITHIN
America in the Vietnam Years, 1945-1974
Written on the premise that the Vietnam War was “not an idiosyncracy [but] rooted in history, habit and hauteur” this account regards the conflict in terms of American post war…
SELECTED WORKS OF MAO TSE-TUNG
Volume II
The War against Japan, role of party in national war, etc. A very good copy, covers slightly soiled….
UNDER FIRE
The Story of American War Correspondents
The story of American war correspondents from the Revolution through the Persian Gulf war. A near fine copy in very good dust jacket (160 pages, numerous photographs, index)….
IN RETROSPECT
The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert McNamara’s reflections on a war that he came to reject and later regret. Drawn from documents only recently declassified and his experience as the Secretary of Defense for two…
MERCHANTS OF TREASON: America’s Secrets for Sale
A classically paranoid late cold war text claiming to be “the first comprehensive analysis of how and why we are losing so badly in the back-alley war of counter espionage.”…
BANNERS IN THE AIR
The Eighth Ohio Volunteers and the Spanish-American War
A Civil War veteran and commander of the only regiment from Ohio to go to Cuba, Curtis V. Hard has written a personal and compelling account of the last days…
THE LIFE AND WARS OF GIDEON J. PILLOW
This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket. Pillow served with distinction in the Mexican War. During the Civil War he commanded…
ENTER THE DRAGON
China’s Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea, 1950-51
A unique volume examining the Korean War in terms of Chinese sources. Based on five years of interviews, Enter the Dragon provides the first thorough account of the Chinese intervention…
SPYING FOR AMERICA
The Hidden History of U.S. Intelligence
A history of intelligence from the Revolutionary War to date. A very good copy, in dust jacket with faded spine and light edge wear….
SOLDIERS OF THE OLD ARMY
A memoir of the author’s service at Ft. Sam Houston in the 9th Inf. Regt., Co. A from 1934 to the eve of war in 1940. A fine copy in…