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ANDERSONVILLE
by MacKinlay Kantor. Condition UNREAD, but not perfect, c. 1955 - 60 New American Library paperback, 25th printing. Pale vertical crease front cover with diagonal crase top front cover corner. Edgewear. Interior clean & tight but tanning. Content: This Pulitzer Prize winner novel captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of an infamous Georgia Civil War prison, and the people who lived outside its barricades. There are two movies that owe much to this book. Andersonville, the 1996 made for TNT film, which was directed by John Frankenheimer and starred Jarrod Emick, Frederic Forrest, Ted Marcoux, Carmen Argenziano, Jayce Bartok, William H. Macy, Jan Triska, William Sanderson, and Gabriel Olds. The movie is brutal and well-acted. The other "movie" was actually a play produced on PBS in 1970 called The Andersonville Trial which detailed 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia. This production was directed by George C. Scott and starred a young, dynamic William Shatner, Richard Basehart (as Wirz), Buddy Ebsen, Cameron Mitchell, Albert Salami, Jack Cassidy, Michael Burns, Charles McGraw, and a very young Martin Sheen. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
by Ron Kovic. Condition: Very Good + 1976 Quality Paperback (Book Club Ed) Trade Paperback. Looks & feels unread, but does have a pale spine crease (binding?). Interior perfect. Content: One of the best of the Vietnam veterans' war memoirs - made into a wonderful, disturbing movie. While it might seem stuck in the 60s and 70s, that is far from accurate - much of what Kovic experienced and his reaction in the aftermath is still going on today - only it's called the Iraq War. Worth the read. The 1989 movie was directed by Oliver Stone and starred Tom Cruise (who deserved an Oscar for this performance), the great Tom Berenger, Frank Whaley, Stephen Baldwin, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Sizemore, and Willem Dafoe. There are also bit parts for the other Baldwin brothers, Stone, and Vivica Fox. [1 copy available]
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THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI
by Pierre Boulle. Condition: Gently pre-read 2000 Grammercy hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), second printing. Content: One of the best war movies ever made. The author was a World War II French resistance fighter who was captured by the Vichy in the Far East. The British POWs did indeed build a bridge for the Japanese (in fact, they built 2). The book is darker and, as some one remarked - war noir, more depressing than the movie version, but still worth the read. Boulle also wrote the Planet of the Apes. The 1957 movie was diected by David Lean and starred Sir Alex Guiness, the fabulous William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, and James Donald. If you have not seen the movie, run to your local Blockbuster and grab a copy. [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. While this is most likely not the book that inspired the c. 1950s movie of the same name, it will be an invaluable source when watching the movie. Starring: James Garner, Peter Brown, Venetia Stevenson, Edd (Cookie) Byrnes, Stuart Whitman, and half of the good looking guys under contract to Warner Brothers at that time. It's a good movie. [1 copy available]
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THE DEER HUNTER (Movie Novelization)
by E. M. Corder. Screenplay by Deric Washburn. Movie stills front cover. Condition: Gently pre-read 1978 Jove paperback, first printing. Small edgewear with hinge crease. Interior clean and very tight with light tanning to page edges. Content: This is the story of steelworker buddies from a small Pennsylvania town who were drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. The great 1979 movie starred Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken (Academy Award), Meryl Streep, & George Dzundza. One of the great American films. [1 copy available]
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THE DEER HUNTER (Movie Novelization)
by E. M. Corder. Screenplay by Deric Washburn. Movie stills front cover. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1979 Jove paperback, third printing. Small edgewear with light rubbings along front hinge. Thin binder's glue string down spine. Interior very clean & tight with pale tanning to page edges. Better than it sounds. Content: This is the story of steelworker buddies from a small Pennsylvania town who were drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. The great 1979 movie starred Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken (Academy Award), Meryl Streep, & George Dzundza. One of the great American films. [1 copy available]
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ENEMY AT THE GATES: The Battle for Stalingrad (Movie Edition)
by William Craig. B&W photo section. Fiennes & Law movie cover art. B&W maps. Condition: UNREAD 2001 Penguin Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: The bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, Stalingrad was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II. A major loss for the Axis powers, the battle for Stalingrad signaled the beginning of the end for the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler. During the 5 years Craig spent researching the battle, he traveled extensively on three continents, studying documents and interviewing hundreds of survivors, both military and civilian. This unique account is their story and the stories of the nearly two million men and women who lost their lives. The movie of the same name states only that this book was "an inspiration" for the movie. The 2001 movie was directed & written by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starred Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, and Ed Harris. The movie focuses on the historically dubious "war of the snipers" and is mostly based on the book War of the Rats. It doesn't matter - this is one great movie! [1 copy available]
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EMPIRE OF THE SUN
by J. G. Ballard. Condition: Good+ 1988 Grafton Books (London) paperback, second printing. Tiny edgewear with hinge and spine crease. Interior is clean and tight with pale tanning to page edges. Content: This is an account of JG Ballard's childhood in Shanghai during World War II when he was imprisoned in an internment camp away from his parents but just knowing that alone tells you nothing about the book. Yes, it takes place in WWII but that's almost irrelevant to the book, Jim is barely aware of the war as far as most people would conceive it and the entire war seems to take place mostly on the periphery . . . if it doesn't affect him directly than he doesn't care. His survival in the brutal world of the Japanese prison camp and the ironies the war can produce have given us the powerful perspective of a innocent bystander-participant. The 1987 movie was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, and Ben Stiller. One of those must-see movies. [1 copy available]
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FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE (Movie Edition)
by Alistair MacLean. Movie art (cast) front cover. Condition: Gently pre-read (to page 5 & then abandoned) 1968 Fawcett Crest paperback edition, 16th printing (c. 1978). Small edgewear, pale hinge crease with a pale crease front cover. Interior clean & tight with light tanning to page edges. Content: Maclean reunites us with the three main characters from "The Guns of Navarone" just after the completion of their desperate commando mission in the Greek Isles of the Second World War. However, there is no rest for the exhausted heroes, who are promptly launched on another mission by their boss in the British Special Operations Executive. Reinforced by a group of young British Commandos, the new team is parachuted into Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia and right into the midst of a three way conflict between the Germans and several Yugoslav factions who are also engaged in a civil war. The team's mission is to traverse the war-torn country, navigating between the warring factions, and destroy a huge dam that is the key to a planned German offensive. The heroes from Navarone are world-weary, and wary, warriors compared to the young and enthusiastic commandos with whom they are teamed, but all will have to pull together if they are to survive a series of betrayals and mishaps. Maclean has provided a typically twisted plot that produces surprises and suspense to the very end. Maclean's excellent and sardonic dialogue is matched with a good sense of place for war-torn Yugoslavia. The 1978 movie was directed by Guy Hamilton and starred Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach, Edward Fox, Franco Nero, Richard Kiel, & Carl Weathers. Although the movie does not fare well with a comparison to the original "Navarone" movie, the book is very good. [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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THE GUNS OF NAVARONE (Abridged Movie Edition)
by Alistair MacLean. Movie photo (cast) front cover. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1966 Perma Books/Scholastic paperback, 5th printing. Light edgewear with rubbings along back hinge. Interior clean & tight (therefore readable & collectible) with moderate tanning. Content: Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?. The 1961 blockbuster movie was directed by J. Lee Thompson and starred Gregory Peck, Dvid Niven, Anthony Quinn, the great Anthony Quayle, Richard Harris, James Darren (Moondoggie), and Irene Papas. [1 copy available]
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HANOVER STREET
by Maureen Gregson. Based on the screenplay by Peter Hyams. Condition: Good 1979 Bantam paperback, first printing. Minor edgewear with a near-break at page 99. Top fore edges show a light discoloration. Content: Although this is a movie about war, it is also a love story. Amid war-shattered London, three extraordinary people play out their lives in a haunting novel of love, passion and violence. The 1979 movie starred Harrison Ford, Christopher Plummer, and Lesley-Anne Down. [1 copy available]
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JARHEAD: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
by Anthony Swofford. Movie still DJ. Condition: UNREAD 2003 Scribner hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. This may be a special edition or a Book Club Edition. Content: In this candid war memoir, Anthony Swofford chronicles his experiences as a sniper during the first Gulf War, in 1991. A third-generation soldier, Swofford served in a United States Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition Platoon, and here he holds nothing back as he conveys the raw feelings of fear and boredom that he experienced, as well as the shared feelings of intimacy and camaraderie of soldiers waiting to ship out, waiting for a fire fight, waiting to die. In his down time, Swofford reflects on his upbringing in a military family, and his experiences in boot camp. This grunt's eye view of combat was a New York Times Notable Book for 2003. It was also made into a 2005 movie, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Scott MacDonald, Peter Sarsgaard, and Lo Ming. [1 copy available]
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THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS
by Ewen Montagu. Foreword by Lord Ismay. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, c. 1971 Scholastic paperback, 12th printing. Light tanning to white cover edges. Light edgewear. Interior clean & tight with light tanning to page edges. TK431. Content: As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mislead the Germans into thinking the next landing would occur in Greece. The innovative plot was so successful that the Germans moved some of their forces away from Sicily, and two weeks into the real invasion still expected an attack in Greece. This extraordinary operation called for a dead body, dressed as a Royal Marine officer and carrying false information about a pending Allied invasion of Greece, to wash up on a Spanish shore near the town of a known Nazi agent. Agent Montagu tells the story as only an insider could, offering fascinating details of the difficulties involved-especially in creating a persona for a man who never was--and of his profession as a spy and the risks involved in mounting such a complex operation. Failure could have had devastating results. Success, however, brought a decided change in the course of the war. Ewen Montagu ran the counterespionage sub-branch of the naval intelligence division at the British Admiralty. He later became judge advocate of the fleet and died in 1985. Exciting (and fun) tale of espionage in World War II. The 1956 movie was directed by Ronald Neame and starred the magnificient Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Stephen Boyd, Robert Flemyng, Cyril Cusack, and Laurence Naismith. Don't miss the movie even if you don't read the book! [1 copy available]
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THE WINGS OF EAGLES (Original novel)
by Walt Grove. Cover painting by Bayre Phillips. Condition: Good only, 1957 Gold Medal Books paperback, first printing. Problems: Cover has multiple "spider creases." Also, hinge crease with edgewear and moderate tanning to page edges. Content: Based on the life and writings of Lieutenant Commander Frank W. "Spig" Wead, the rebellious sailor who ended up with his crushed body in a wheelchair, still fighting the battle for wings - and the whole Japanese enemy force. Wead later became a screenwriter. The 1957 film was directed by John Ford and the screenplay was by Frank Fenton and William Wister Haines. The stars: John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis, and Edmund Lowe. I think this is one of John Wayne's best acting jobs. [1 copy available]
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