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APHRODITE DESPERATE MISSION (John Gresham Military Library Selection)
by Jack Olsen. B&W charts illustrate. Introduction by John Gresham. Condition: NEW 2004 ibooks Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Reissue of 1970 edition. Content: Billed as "the only full and complete account of the death of Lt. Joseph Kennedy, Jr., President John F. Kennedy's brother." But this book is more than that. This is the incredible and true story of the World War II top secret mission to destroy Nazi V-2 ballistic rocket bases designed to rain ballistic missile death on London and New York City. Born in desperation and carried out with foolhardy courage and at the cost of brave men's lives, Mission aphrodite was a real-life Guns of Navarone scheme that called for volunteers to guide B-17 drone planes packed with explosives into the Nazi V-2 rocket bases. These missions would lay the groundwork for America's own guided missile program. Joe Kennedy flew one of these planes. [1 copy available]
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BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP
by Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, Col., U.S. Marine Corps, Ret. B&W drawings illustrate - no artist credit given. Condition: UNREAD 1987 Bantam War Book paperback, 16th printing. Tiny edgewear with tanning to page edges. Content: Reviewer: "If you're a fan of "Black Sheep Squadron", a WWII: Pacific Theatre buff, or just like interesting stories, read this book. Lt. Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, a multiple Marine Ace and Congressional Medal of Honor Winner, wrote this book about his experiences just prior to, during and just after WWII. His adventures and misadventures make a good read. Some of what he describes may have been embelished, but I defy anyone to tell me which parts are true and which parts aren't. His descriptions of aerial combat, being shotdown and captured, as well as his time as a POW are riveting." Definitely not the TV series Pappy. [1 copy available]
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THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY
by Ira Peck. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1976 Scholastic paperback, 9th printing. Light crease bottom front cover edge, but interior is clean & tight with light tanning to interior page edges. Content: A detailed analysis and history of the Pacific in World War II and in particular the spectacular Battle of Midway. [1 copy available]
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THE BOMBING OF AUSCHWITZ: Should the Allies Have Attempted It?
edited by Michael J. Neufeld and Michael Berenbaum. Published in association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. B&W maps & photo section. Condition: UNREAD 2000 St. Martin's Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Content: This book argues the feasibility of whether the Allies could and should have bombed the Auschwitz concentration camp out of commission in 1944. Editors Neufeld and Berenbaum, both Holocaust scholars, have collected essays and book excerpts from 15 contributors who present the military, political, and moral questions. The editors' own views are clear: The majority of the arguments are weighted toward the conclusion that the American and British military had the capability but lacked the political will to bomb Auschwitz or do anything else militarily to stop the Holocaust. The moral and emotional arguments naturally favor bombing in Auschwitz or do anything else militarily to stop the Holocaust. The moral and emotional arguments naturally favor bombing Auschwitz, but the strategic arguments against bombing remain convincing, recognizing that the all-consuming Allied goal at the time was defeating Hitler and that the Allied effort did not have unlimited resources to divert from what were then considered to be its vital, war-winning military targets (to say nothing of the further tragedy that might have been inflicted on the prisoners by a less-than-perfect bombing). Best are the pro and con essays by James H. Kitchens and Stuart G. Erdheim, as well as the discussions of intelligence collection. Accompanying documents are enlightening. [1 copy available]
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BROTHERHOOD OF THE BOMB: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Erneset Lawrence, and Edward Teller
by Gregg Herken. B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD 2003 Owl Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: It would be difficult to identify three American scientists whose work had a greater effect on world politics than Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. This exhaustive account of how they worked together (and competed against each other) on the development of the atomic and hydrogen bombs is more a story of people than science. Author Herken of the Smithsonian Institution informs us, for instance, of Oppenheimer's "riotous parties" in the 1930s, in which latecomers would see "the top physicists of their generation, drunk and crouched on all fours, playing a version of tiddly-winks on the geometric patterns of Oppenheimer's Navajo rug." Despite a few light touches, this is no breezy profile of three great minds. Instead, it is a serious look at invention, rivalry, and betrayal. One of the central episodes involves Oppenheimer's too-cozy relationship with radical-left politics-- he carelessly associated with Communists, even though he occupied one of the most sensitive jobs in the U.S. government during the cold war--and Teller's momentous decision to testify against him. This event is one of the most controversial in the annals of American science, and Herken tells it straight, with barely a word of editorial comment. [1 copy available]
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CARRIER WARFARE IN THE PACIFIC: An Oral History Collection
Smithsonian History of Aviation Series
edited by E. T. Wooldridge. Foreword by John B. Connally. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read 1993 Smithsonian Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no priting given. DJ has very light edgewear. Interior clean & tight. Content: Capturing the times when lives and victory were in peril, this book records the exploits of the men who fought in WWII in the air and on the sea, including pilots and air crewmen of carrier squadrons, officers and men of the ship's company, and admirals and their staffs. Compelling personal accounts. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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DARBY'S RANGERS: We Led The Way
by William O. Darby with William H. Baumer. B&W photo section. Condition: Good pre-read 2003 Ballantine paperback, first printing. Small edgewear with spine crease, Interior clean. Content: From the moment they hit the beaches in North Africa to their last desperate struggle at Anzio, Darby's Rangers asked for only one thing in World War II - the chance to fight. Experts at amphibious landings, night attacks, and close combat, the Rangers were the spearhead for advancing U.S. forces. At their helm was William O. Darby. One of the most popular war movies of the 1950s with James Garner playing Darby. [1 copy available]
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DAY OF DESTINY: The Photographs of D-Day
by L. Douglas Keeney and William Butler. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1999 William Morrow large soft cover, first printing. Light edge wear with light rubbings along back hinge. Interior clean & tight. Content: Reviewer: "This book gives you a image tour through what is one of the most amazing and interesting battles of World War II. To graphically see what it was like transports you back to the beaches on that day. The commentary along with the photography give a chlling account of D-Day." Note: There are a few errors in the captions for a few of the photos. [1 copy available]
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DUTY: A Father, His Son, and The Man Who Won the War
by Bob Greene. Paul Tibbets photos on cover Condition: NEW 2001 Perennial (Harper) Trade Paperback first thus, first printing. Content: When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before - thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away, a man who had changed the history of the world. Greene's father, a soldier with an infantry division in World War II, often spoke of seeing the man around town. All but anonymous even in his own city, carefully maintaining his privacy, this man, Greene's father would point out to him, had "won the war." He was Paul Tibbets. At the age of twenty-nine, at the request of his country, Tibbets assembled a secret team of 1,800 American soldiers to carry out the single most violent act in the history of mankind. In 1945 Tibbets piloted a plane -- which he called Enola Gay, after his mother -- to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where he dropped the atomic bomb. On the morning after the last meal he ever ate with his father, Greene went to meet Tibbets. What developed was an unlikely friendship that allowed Greene to discover things about his father, and his father's generation of soldiers, that he never fully understood before. [1 copy available]
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THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK (Movie Edition)
by William Bradford Huie. Condition: UNREAD 1974 Dell paperback third printing. Movie edition. Tiny edgewear but the page edges are deeply tanned. Content: Reviewer: "This is an incredible World War II story of how an uneducated kid from Detroit lovesick for his new bride ended up being shot for refusing to fire his gun in anger. He was accused of desertion--but it isn't that he ran from fighting it was the fact that he refused to fire. When he became separated from his unit after a night time artillery barrage, he ended up being a productive member of a Canadian reconn group that found him and another guy. He acted as their cook. It was then that he took to carrying writing paper in his ammunition pouches. And he wrote to his wife every day until he died. When he finally was able to get back with his unit, he did not want to fight. Instead of finding something else for him to do, the Army ended up killing him. He apologized according to the priest who spoke to him as he was tied to a post and he told the priest to let the boys know that he didn't blame them for what they had to do. The irony, of course, is that thousands of American soldiers deserted duty during World War II, including officers, yet only Slovik was executed. The book opens with the author contacting the other guy who got lost with Slovik and he was stunned that Eddie Slovik was shot. He had absolutely no idea. The impetus behind the book is that the whole story was hushed up--the author happened to stumble upon a reference right after the war and began his investigation--so that even though at the time the reason given for killing Slovik was to create a deterrent for desertion, no one outside of the small execution group ever found out!" Ghastly example of American military justice. [1 copy available]
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THE FORRESTAL DIARIES
edited by Walter Millis with the collaboration of E. S. Duffield. Condition: Very Good+ 1966 Viking Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), third printing. B&W photo section. Interior clean & tight - no tanning that I can see. Gift inscription loose endpage. Content: When James Forrestal was made Secretary of the Navy in 1944, he began to keep a private diary of his service in government. The diary continued through his tenure as the first Secretary of Defense. It names people, places, events, dates relating to the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. Forrestal left public service in 1949 and shortly thereafter committed suicide. His diary is a valid and valuable tool for understanding American history and American government in two of it's most difficult stages. Excellent for researchers. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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GHOST SOLDIERS: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
by Hampton Sides. B&W maps & photo section. Condition: NEW 2002 Anchor Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamouse Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the area made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation. The 2005 movie was directed by John Dahl and starared Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Robert Mammone, Max Martini, James Carpinello, and Joseph Fiennes. [1 copy available]
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GUADALCANAL DIARY
by Richard Tregaskis. Foreword by General A. A. Vandegrift. Condition: Very good 1959 Popular Library paperback, 17th printing. Read to about page 15, the interior is clean & tight but is tanning. Tiny edgewear. Content: In the summer and fall of 1942, American Marines landed on the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal and began the slow, bloody work of defeating the Japanese empire. Their landing was significant not only for the outcome of World War II, but also for the conduct of war ever since, for the invasion of Guadalcanal marked the first time that a combined air, sea, and land assault had ever been attempted. It is for that reason that tacticians and military historians study the months-long battle today, and their primary guide to that conflict is Richard Tregaskis's extraordinary Guadalcanal Diary. A volunteer combat correspondent, Tregaskis braved much danger to bring the story of the fighting to American readers. [1 copy available]
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THE INTERPRETER
by Alice Kaplan. B&W maps. Condition: NEW 2005 Free Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. DJ edges show light shelf wear. Content: This elegantly written, solidly researched, articulate history is well suited for students who want to understand the tragedy of America's racial past. In the World War II European Theater, 55 of the 70 American servicemen executed for capital crimes were black-in an army less than 9 percent African American. This racial outrage is Kaplan's theme, and she presents the story through the diaries and novels of Louis Guilloux, a French writer and high intellectual who served as an interpreter for the U.S. army while it crossed France on the way to defeating the German army in its homeland. Guilloux wrote in his diary soon after the hanging of a black private first class (James Hendricks) for murdering a French farmer (the crime should have been deemed manslaughter, which did not demand execution) and attempting to rape the farmer's wife. Having witnessed racial bias in many trials, Guilloux contrasted Hendricks's inept defense with the polished one of a white captain (George Whittington) who murdered a French underground soldier, yet was acquitted. [1 copy available]
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THE "JEWISH THREAT": Anti-Semitic Politics of the the U.S. Army
by Joseph W. Bendersky. Condition: UNREAD 2000 Basic Books Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Light shelfwear - no edgewear. [539 pages] Content: The author spent 10 years researching this important history of anti-Semitism in the U.S. Army. He offers evidence that vicious anti-Semitism permeated the highest ranks of the U.S. Army from the turn of the century through the 1970s. He found that the Army's Military Intelligence Division (NM) created a separate classification for Jews to accommodate pertinent reports, memoranda, and correspondence. Bendersky also discovered letters between officers, secret agents, state secretaries, and embassies abroad, in which information on Jews was exchanged, including lists of prominent Jews who supposedly dominated or influenced German banking, industry, and politics. These Jewish files, Bendersky shows, reveal that an anti-Semitic worldview persisted in the army officer corps throughout World War II. Although the presence of anti-Semitism in the army has never been a secret, Bendersky's documented study reveals for the first time the extent of this insidious policy of Judeophobia. This is truly a significant work. [1 copy available]
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NAUTILUS 90 NORTH
by Commander William R. Anderson, U.S.N. with Clay Blair, Jr. B&W photo section. Condition: Good condition only Signet paperback 1959 edition, 10th printing. Serious edgewear, hinge crease, spine crease, and interior pages are tanning but clean & tight. Content: The true story of the first voyage to the top of the world under the Arctic ice pak by the skipper of the submarine Nautilus. Exciting! [1 copy available]
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PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT: A B-29 Pilot Captive in Japan
(The Ernest Pickett Story)
as told to K. P. Burke. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 2001 Opal Creek hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition. Literary Arts Finalist. Oregon Book Award. Content: Reviewer: ". . .the true life saga of Ernest Pickett, as told to able scribe K. P. Burke, of his World War II odyssey and nightmare. Shot down behind enemy lines, Ernest survived the horrendous conditions which the Japanese military authority inflicted upon prisoners of war in general, and hated American bomber pilots in particular. A gripping, first-person saga of endurance, humanity, and the horrors of war, Proof Through The Night is a highly recommended contribution to the growing library of World War II military memoirs." [1 copy available]
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THE TERRIBLE HOURS: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
by Peter Maas. B&W photo section. Condition: NEW 2001 HarperPerennial Trade Paperback, first printing. Perfect. Content: Maas reconstructs the harrowing 39 hours between the disappearance of the submarine Squalus during a test dive off the New England coast and the eventual rescue of 33 crew members trapped in the vessel 250 feet beneath the sea. It's also the story of Swede Momsen's triumph. Under the worst possible circumstances, Momsen led a successful mission and helped change the future of undersea lifesaving. Not only has Maas written a carefully researched and suspenseful tribute to a true hero, in the process he has salvaged a long-forgotten, riveting piece of American history. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE THOUSAND-MILE WAR: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians
by Brian Garfield. B&W maps and a large (32 pages) B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD 1978 Ballantine paperback, 5th printing. Some tanning to white cover edges and moderate tanning to interior page edges. Light edgewear. Content: It is about 1,000 miles from Dutch Harbor, near the Alaska Peninsula, to Attu at the far western tip of the Aleutian Island chain. It is the most brutal thousand miles in the Pacific Ocean. Here, for 15 months in 1942 - 43, was fought one of the toughest campaigns in World War II - and the only battle fought on American soil. This battle also finally gave the US the first theater-wide win over the Japanese. Fascinating and little-known military history. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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USN: Today's Navy in Combat (In Action With America's Elite Warriors) (The Illustrated Combat Series)
by Michael Skinner. 32 pages of "dramatic" B&W photos. Also B&W charts & maps. Condition: Very good+ 1990 Berkley books paperback first thus, first printing. Pale spine crease and tiny edgewear. Content: Although somewhat dated by the onrush of military technology, this is still an informative book on the ships, planes (yes - Top Guns), and personnel of the US Navy. Great research tool. [1 copy available]
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The VICTORS: Eisenhower & His Boys: Men of World War II
by Stephen Ambrose. Condition: Very Good+ 1998 Simon & Schuster hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition. Intended for a library but never sent to one. No library markings at all. Content: "In this volume Ambrose uses vignettes and stories told in his other books to weave an overall summary of the American soldier's experience in the eleven-month struggle to liberate Europe. He includes stories of individual battles, personal privations, acts of individual sacrifice and surprising courage, and in doing so with these true accounts of men in battle weaves a tale depicting the unbelievable human cost of the war. This book brings the life of a soldier into bold relief, and relates the spellbinding story of men in combat in a way made more vivid, vital, and personal than is possible in any other way. [1 copy available]
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THE WAR AGAINST HITLER: Military Strategy in the West
edited by Albert A. Nofi. Great detailed B&W maps with B&W photos. Condition: NEW 1995 Combined Books Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Renowned historian and military commentator Albert A. Nofi brings together for the first time in paperback a series of hard-hitting essays on World War II's most pivotal campaigns; clear, concise and packed with information. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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WAR AS I KNEW IT (Bantam War Book - Specially Illustrated Edition)
by George S. Patton, Jr. Greg Beecham B&W drawings. B&W maps. Condition: UNREAD 1981 Bantam War Book, 3rd printing. Problem: Tiny edgewear and medium tanning to interior page edges. Content: Adored by many, loathed by some, General George S. Patton, Jr., was one of the most brilliant military strategists in history. War As I Knew It is the personal and candid account of his celebrated, relentless crusade across western Europe during World War II. First published in 1947, this absorbing narrative draws on Patton's vivid memories of battle and his detailed diaries, from the moment the Third Army exploded onto the Brittany Peninsula to the final Allied casualty report. The result is not only a grueling, human account of daily combat and heroic feats - including a riveting look at the Battle of the Bulge - but a valuable chronicle of the strategies and fiery personality of a legendary warrior. Patton's letters from earlier military campaigns in North Africa and Sicily, complemented by a powerful retrospective of his guiding philosophies, further reveal a man of uncompromising will and uncommon character, which made "Georgie" a household name in mid-century America. [1 copy available]
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THE WAR IN EUROPE: From the Kasserine Pass to Berlin, 1942 - 1945 (The G.I. series)
by John P. Langellier. Great detailed B&W maps with B&W era photos. Condition: NEW 1998 Greenhill/Stackpole soft cover, new revised edition, no printing given. Tiny edge wear bottom front cover corner tip. Content: From first deployment in the United Kingdom to the fighting in Germany in 1945 The new edition of this best-selling guide combines period photos of soldiers in the field with expanded captions on specific points of uniforms and equipment. It provides valuable historical insight into the appearance of the American soldier through initial deployment in the United Kingdom, the invasion of Italy, the Normandy campaign, the Ardennes Offensive, and the bitter fighting in Germany in 1945. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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YEARS OF INFAMY: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps
by Michi Weglyn. Introduction by James A. Michener. B&W photos throughout. Condition: Gently pre-read 1976 William Morrow hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), third printing. DJ shows light edgewear with light tanning to white cover edges. Interior clean & tight. Content: "A powerful and absorbing book. It eloquently reminds us of a painful period when America, caught up in the passion of war, betrayed the principles of liberty and justice so basic to its own self-image. This reminder is necessary if we are to avoid the repetition of those tragic years." - Senator Daniel K. Inouye. Detailed history down to the forms the Americans had to fill out and the details of camp uprisings. An excellent read in light of today's political climate. [1 copy available]
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