2011, ISBN: 9780743203944

Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. Very good. [6], 114, [8] pages. Footnotes. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Name of previous owner on fep. Minor page discolor… Mehr…

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. Ninth Printing. Hardcover. Very good. [6], 114, [8] pages. Footnotes. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Name of previous owner on fep. Minor page discoloration. Introduction by the translator, Brigadier-General Samuel Griffith. Number 99 in the series Praeger Publications in Russian History and World Communism. Brigadier General Samuel Blair Griffith II (May 31, 1906 - March 27, 1983) was an officer and commander in the United States Marine Corps. Griffith entered the Marines in 1929 after graduating from the United States Naval Academy. He served in and commanded Marine units in the Pacific theater of World War II and retired from service in 1956. After his retirement, Griffith wrote several books and numerous articles on military history and lectured widely. Prior to World War II, he took part in the Second Nicaraguan Campaign, and served in China, Cuba, and England. From 1935 to 1938, he studied the Chinese language while attached to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, where he mastered Chinese. During World War II, following a period observing British commando training in England and Scotland, he returned to the 1st Marine Division and served as executive officer and later commander of the 1st Marine Raiders Battalion on Guadalcanal, and executive officer of the 1st Raider Regiment in operations on New Georgia. He received the Navy Cross on Guadalcanal in September 1942 for "extreme heroism and courageous devotion to duty" during the fighting near the Matanikau River. For his exploits in July in New Georgia, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. From 1946 to 1947, he held staff positions in Qingdao, China, giving him a front-row seat to observe the escalating Chinese Civil War. After participating in the post-World War II occupation of North China, where he commanded the 3rd Marine Regiment and later the U.S. Marine Forces in Qingdao, he was a student and then a faculty member at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport from 1947 to 1950. From 1951 to 1952, he was chief of staff, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, and from 1953 to 1956, General Griffith was on the staff of the U.S. Commander in Chief, Europe. He retired from the Marine Corps in 1956, after completing more than 25 years of active service. Following his retirement, General Griffith entered Oxford University (New College) and was awarded his D.Phil. in Chinese Military History in 1961. With an interest in China and the Chinese language dating back to pre-World War II days, he translated Mao Zedong's On Guerrilla War in 1961 and Sun Tzu's The Art of War in 1963. On Guerrilla Warfare is Mao Zedong's case for the extensive use of an irregular form of warfare in which small groups of combatants use mobile military tactics in the forms of ambushes and raids to combat a larger and less mobile formal army. Mao wrote the book in 1937 to convince Chinese political and military leaders that guerilla style-tactics were necessary for the Chinese to use in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Since its first publication in 1961, Griffith's English language translation On Guerrilla Warfare has become one of the classics of military literature and the essential manual for understanding revolutionary warfare. In his translation, Brigadier General Samuel Griffith traces the development of Mao's strategic thought and assesses its impact on global affairs. Read by President Kennedy and others, On Guerrilla Warfare had a major role in the creation of American counter-insurgency doctrine and forces. Griffith pioneered the American study of Chinese military thought, translating from Chinese the ancient strategist Sun-Tzu, as well as Mao, and was instrumental in alerting the American people to the challenges of unconventional warfare. Griffith's original introduction and notes are important in their own right. Have Mao's beliefs that revolutionary wars can succeed without the need for conventional forces been proven false? What can we learn from the test of time?, Frederick A. Praeger, 1967, 3, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ, in plastic sleeve, has sticker "As seen on The History Channel" on front.. viii, [1], 388 p. Map. Illustrations. Casualty List. Endnotes. Works Cited. Index. The hair-raising, frontline account of the first American airborne invasion of World War II and of the young paratroopers who risked their lives for freedom By 1943, the war in Europe had reached a turning point. General Dwight Eisenhower was given orders to invade Sicily and head north. To achieve this, Ike had a new weapon: U.S. paratroopers. Their mission was to seize the approaches to the invasion beaches and to hold off German attacks. "Combat Jump tells the little-known story of these paratroopers and how they changed the American way of war. It takes readers on their journey from civilians to citizen soldiers, through training in the United States and later in North Africa, and then shows their daring jump into the darkness over enemy-held Sicily. By first light on D-day, July 10, 1943, it looked as if the mission would fail. Inexperienced pilots, lost or blown off course, dropped 80 percent of the troopers from one to sixty-five miles from their targets. The American commander, James Gavin, landed so far from his objective that he was not even sure he was in Sicily. Arthur Gorham, commanding 500 men of the First Battalion, encountered two surprises when the sun came up. He and just over 100 of his men were the only GIs--out of 3, 400 dropped--near their objective. He also discovered that the Germans on Sicily had tanks. The lightly armed paratroopers, with their rifles and hand grenades, were not equipped to take on the forty-ton panzers. But against all odds, they did. The costly lessons they learned shaped the war in Europe, for without Sicily, there might have been no airborne invasion of France in June 1944. "Combat Jump recounts the extraordinarycontributions these young men made when their country called them to war, and it tells a classic tale of military action and remarkable courage. The little known story of these paratroopers and how they changed the American way of war. Author also wrote 'Duty First: West Point and the Making of American Leaders'., HarperCollins Publishers, 2003, 3, Birmingham, Alabama: Palladium Press, 2011. Fascimilie Copy of the 1920 First Edition. Full Calf. Fine. Demy octavo, [18.125cm./7.5 inches], full gilt-embossed maroon calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. 269. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Major Hesketh Vernon Prichard, later Hesketh-Prichard, (1876 – 14 1922), was an explorer, adventurer, writer, big-game hunter, marksman and cricketer who made a significant contribution to sniping practice within the British Army during the First World War. Concerned not only with improving the quality of marksmanship, the measures he introduced to counter the threat of German snipers were credited by a contemporary with saving the lives of over 3,500 Allied soldiers. During his lifetime, he also explored territory never seen before by a European, played cricket at first-class level, including on overseas tours, wrote short stories and novels (one of which was turned into a Douglas Fairbanks film) and was a successful newspaper correspondent and travel writer., Palladium Press, 2011, 5, UK: Paladin Press, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Arwrology is derived from the old Welsh word arwr, meaning an all-out hand-to-hand fighter. It was developed by Gordon E. Perrigard, a Canadian medical doctor who combined his knowledge of advanced ju-jitsu with his knowledge of human anatomy to come up with this devastatingly effective close-in combat system.Arwrology was originally released in 1943 in Canada for use in training combatants for World War II. Martialists from all over the world quickly hailed its superior fighting methods, and today it remains one of the most highly sought after - and most valuable - fighting manuals in the world. Don't miss your chance to add this authentic reproduction of an extremely rare combat classic to your library at a price you can afford., Paladin Press, 2006, 3, Crown. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307335968 . Author signed bookplate and inlaid letter to former owner from author. Dust Jacket now in Mylar Protective Cover. Beautiful scarce collectors grade copy of this book. Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world’s largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, disease-ridden land of dense jungle, towering mountain peaks, deep valleys, and fetid swamps. Coveted by the Japanese for its strategic position, New Guinea became the site of one of the South Pacific’s most savage campaigns. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division’s Ghost Mountain Boys were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign: to march 130 miles over the rugged Owen Stanley Mountains and to protect the right flank of the Australian army as they fought to push the Japanese back to the village of Buna on New Guinea’s north coast. Comprised of National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin, reserve officers, and draftees from across the country, the 32nd Division lacked more than training—they were without even the basics necessary for survival. The men were not issued the specialized clothing that later became standard issue for soldiers fighting in the South Pacific; they fought in hastily dyed combat fatigues that bled in the intense humidity and left them with festering sores. They waded through brush and vines without the aid of machetes. They did not have insect repellent. Without waterproof containers, their matches were useless and the quinine and vitamin pills they carried, as well as salt and chlorination tablets, crumbled in their pockets. Exhausted and pushed to the brink of human endurance, the Ghost Mountain Boys fell victim to malnutrition and disease. Forty-two days after they set out, they arrived two miles south of Buna, nearly shattered by the experience. Arrival in Buna provided no respite. The 32nd Division was ordered to launch an immediate assault on the Japanese position. After two months of furious—sometimes hand-to-hand—combat, the decimated division finally achieved victory. The ferocity of the struggle for Buna was summed up in Time magazine on December 28, 1942, three weeks before the Japanese army was defeated: “Nowhere in the world today are American soldiers engaged in fighting so desperate, so merciless, so bitter, or so bloody.”Reminiscent of classics like Band of Brothers and The Things They Carried</i>, this harrowing portrait of a largely overlooked campaign is part war diary, part extreme adventure tale, and (through letters, journals, and interviews) part biography of a group of men who fought to survive in an environment every bit as fierce as the enemy they faced. Rare. ; 1.4 x 9.3 x 6.3 Inches; 400 pages; Signed by Author ., Crown, 2007, 4, NY: Random House, 1956. VG/VG. 1st/1st. The book is Very Good. Stated First Printing. There is a slight lean to the spine and mild fading to interior boards, otherwise it is tightly bound with good corners and clean boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, no bookplates or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The pages are lightly tanned. The dust jacket is unclipped ($3.95) with mild rubbing and a few small chips. (see photos). Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Hilarious novel and basis of 1957 film starring Glenn Ford and Gia Scala.Set on a remote Pacific island during the waning days of World War II, this classic humor novel about the public relations sector of the Navy follows the adventures of a group of young officers, commissioned without the corrupting influence of any intervening naval training, as they bravely face wartime adversities with comic ingenuity., Random House, 1956, 3, Seattle, WA: Northwest Short Line, [1985]. Oblong 4to. 270 pp. Photo frontisp., w/ 100s of photo illustrations, diagrams throughout. Green publishers cloth, gilt lettering, w/ d.j. cover art photo of NP locomotive 5106, maps on verso of jacket w/ explanatory text, NF/NF copy. First edition of this well-illustrated and informative photographic history of the Northern Pacific during the Great Depression, World War II, and into the Mid-20th Century featuring the images of Warren McGee and Ron Nixon., Northwest Short Line, 0, New. Originally published in 1999, Cathedrals of Consumption examines the history of the department store. After many decades in which it was almost exclusively historians of retailing and company biographers who were interested in the phenomenon, the department store has now come to attract the attention of historians of culture, consumption, gender, urban life and much more. Indeed, the department store in its classic era of expansive growth has often seemed better than anything else to embody the cultural and social modernity of its time. The articles in this book range widely in presenting the breadth of these new approaches to department store history. An introductory essay explores the questions that surround the department store from its appearance in the mid-nineteenth century, through its golden age in the decades before the First World War, to the challenges posed in the more competitive world of inter-war Europe. A dozen contributors - writing about Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and Hungary - then examine themes as varied as the new public space which department stores provided for women, the politics of consumption, the architecture of the new stores, the training of the workforce, the cult of shopping, advertising strategies, shoplifting, employer organisations, and the geographical spread of the new stores, while a comparison with eighteenth-century London raises the question of just how new the department store was., 6, New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books, 1967. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. [8], 236 pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes Foreword, Also contains chapters on The Background; Prelude to Sinai; Kalkiliah; On the Eve; The Campaign Opens; Breakthrough; Decision; Sharm E-Sheikh; and Epilogue. 14 black and white illustrations appear between pages 184 and 185. There are also 10 black and white maps in the text. Appendices on "Kadesh'' Planning Order No. 1; Directives for Operational Order; Egyptian Order of Battle in Sinai; Israel Army Formations Taking Part in Operation 'Kadesh'; Dates of Major Actions by Israel Formations (ground forces); and Captured Egyptian Weapons and Equipment in Sinai Campaign. Index. Moshe Dayan (20 May 1915 - 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces during the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of the state of Israel. In the 1930s, Dayan joined the Haganah, the pre-state Jewish defense force of Mandatory Palestine. He served in the Special Night Squads under Orde Wingate during the Arab revolt. Dayan joined Ben-Gurion setting up the Rafi party. Dayan became Defence Minister just before the 1967 Six-Day War. After the Yom Kippur War of 1973, he was blamed for the lack of preparedness. In 1977, following the election of Menachem Begin as Prime Minister, Dayan joined the Likud-led government as Foreign Minister, playing an important part in negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. This book is based on the diary for the years 1955-7 kept by the office of the Chief of Staff. The entries covered fully not only the military items which reached the Chief of Staff's table each day, but also the political context in which they were set. This diary is not, of course, presented here in its entirety, nor has the shorthand style of the original text necessarily been followed. Some sections have been eliminated, others shortened, still others expanded. Much additional material has been included from the written reports of the units taking part in the campaign and from the accounts Moshe Dayan received in talks with the commanders. In the second half of 1954, the anti-Israel terrorism was intensified. In the succeeding months, it became clear to the Israel Government that these were not isolated incidents prompted by individual whim, but an organized operation undertaken with the knowledge of the Arab Governments and at the initiative and on the responsibility of Egypt. Israel's security situation steadily worsened, reaching a point of gravity in 1955-5 unknown since the war days of 1948. The basic causes of this tension were three-fold: Egyptian preparations for an all-out war against Israel; Arab acts of terror by trained guerrilla bands; and the blockade of Israeli shipping in the Gulf of Akaba. Derived from a Kirkus review: The Sinai Campaign, for those with short memories, was the Israel part in what is usually referred to as the Suez Crisis. And General Dayan was the man who carried it to a successful conclusion, ending Egypt's terrorist raids and blockade of Israel's shipping, and gaining for his young country a healthy respect from friends and enemies alike. This operation was really a classic example of a new kind of war which, strictly limited in scope and objectives, takes place beneath a "political sword of Damocles." Israel had to act swiftly, while world attention was focused on the activities of England and France, and she had to achieve tangible results before the UN could stop her. And General Dayan is a new kind of military man: youngish, dashing, with a black patch over one eye, he had the agility of mind and the delicate flexibility of character to lead an eager army which faced political and military realities. His book, based on the 1955-57 official diary of the Chief of Staff, provides an excellent straightforward account. It is the first to come close to giving a complete version of a little-known but important episode., Schocken Books, 1967, 2.5, Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Co, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Fair. 241-300 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Some musical notes/scores. Cover worn and soiled. Some page browning. Mailing label on front cover. Edge tear on front cover. Etude Magazine was published by Theodore Presser Company between 1883 and 1957. It was a staple for music teachers throughout the country, providing articles related to music history, new developments in music, and practical teaching techniques, as well as musical scores from the classics and new pieces for beginning to advanced students. Begun as an aid for piano teachers, the magazine grew to include information and literature for vocal and instrumental enthusiasts as well. Not only is the series important to the musician, but it provides an insight into the culture itself, including the impact of the development of the car, radio, and television, and expands to world music and the influence of world wars on that culture. Among the topics covered are: Julia Ward Howe, Ecclesiastical Music, High School Choir, G. I. Joe, Violinist, Voice Care, Sound. The Etude was an American print magazine dedicated to music founded by Theodore Presser (1848-1925) at Lynchburg, Virginia, and first published in October 1883. Presser, who had also founded the Music Teachers National Association, moved his publishing headquarters to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1884, and his Theodore Presser Company continued the magazine until 1957. Aimed at all musicians, from the novice through the serious student to the professional, The Etude printed articles about both basic (or "popular") and more-involved musical subjects (including history, literature, gossip, and politics), contained write-in advice columns about musical pedagogy, and piano sheet music, of all performer ability levels, totaling over 10,000 works. James Francis Cooke, editor-in-chief from 1909 to 1949, added the phrase "Music Exalts Life!" to the magazine's masthead, and The Etude became a platform for Cooke's somewhat polemical and militantly optimistic editorials. The sometimes conservative outlook and contents of the magazine may have contributed to a decline in circulation in the 1930s and '40s, but in many respects it moved with the times, unequivocally supporting the phonograph, radio, and eventually television, and, by the late 1930s, fully embracing jazz. By the end, George Rochberg was an editor of The Etude under Guy McCoy, who had succeeded Cooke as editor-in-chief after over two decades as an assistant, and the magazine's musical content had come more closely in-step with the contemporary world., Theodore Presser Co, 1946, 2, Philadelphia: Theodore Presser Co, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Fair. 121-180 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Some musical notes/scores. Cover worn and soiled. Some page browning. Mailing label on front cover. Cover torn at spine well into front cover, but still partially attached. Etude Magazine was published by Theodore Presser Company between 1883 and 1957. It was a staple for music teachers throughout the country, providing articles related to music history, new developments in music, and practical teaching techniques, as well as musical scores from the classics and new pieces for beginning to advanced students. Begun as an aid for piano teachers, the magazine grew to include information and literature for vocal and instrumental enthusiasts as well. Not only is the series important to the musician, but it provides an insight into the culture itself, including the impact of the development of the car, radio, and television, and expands to world music and the influence of world wars on that culture. Among the topics covered are: Song writing, Symphonic Records, Latin American Music, Viola, Violinist, Conducting, G. I. Joe, Salesmanship. The Etude was an American print magazine dedicated to music founded by Theodore Presser (1848-1925) at Lynchburg, Virginia, and first published in October 1883. Presser, who had also founded the Music Teachers National Association, moved his publishing headquarters to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1884, and his Theodore Presser Company continued the magazine until 1957. Aimed at all musicians, from the novice through the serious student to the professional, The Etude printed articles about both basic (or "popular") and more-involved musical subjects (including history, literature, gossip, and politics), contained write-in advice columns about musical pedagogy, and piano sheet music, of all performer ability levels, totaling over 10,000 works. James Francis Cooke, editor-in-chief from 1909 to 1949, added the phrase "Music Exalts Life!" to the magazine's masthead, and The Etude became a platform for Cooke's somewhat polemical and militantly optimistic editorials. The sometimes conservative outlook and contents of the magazine may have contributed to a decline in circulation in the 1930s and '40s, but in many respects it moved with the times, unequivocally supporting the phonograph, radio, and eventually television, and, by the late 1930s, fully embracing jazz. By the end, George Rochberg was an editor of The Etude under Guy McCoy, who had succeeded Cooke as editor-in-chief after over two decades as an assistant, and the magazine's musical content had come more closely in-step with the contemporary world., Theodore Presser Co, 1946, 2, New York: Pantheon Books [ A Division of Random House, Inc.], 1967. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket present. xxix, [1], 474, [4] pages. Frontispiece. Tables. Notes. Appendix. References. Index. Some cover wear. Ink notations inside front board and fep. Stamp on fep and second fep. Herbert J. Gans (born May 7, 1927) is a German-born American sociologist who taught at Columbia University from 1971 to 2007. One of the most influential sociologists of his generation, Gans came to America in 1940 as a refugee from Nazi Germany and has sometimes described his scholarly work as an immigrant's attempt to understand America. He trained in sociology at the University of Chicago and in social planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Although Gans views his career as spanning six fields of research, he initially made his reputation as a critic of urban renewal in the early 1960s. His book, The Urban Villagers, described Boston's diverse West End neighborhood, where he mainly studied its Italian-American working class community. The book is well known for its critical analysis of the area's clearance as an alleged "slum" and the West Enders' displacement from their neighborhood. His book The Levittowners was based on years of participant-observation in New Jersey's Levitt-built suburb in Willingboro, observing how a set of new homeowners came together to establish the community's formal and informal organizations. Demonstrating the inaccuracy of the depiction of the postwar suburbs as homogeneous, conformist and anomic, Gans showed that Levittown was a typical lower middle class suburb, the residents' class and other differences structuring the social and political life of the community. In 1955, Levitt and Sons purchased most of Willingboro Township, New Jersey and built 11,000 homes. This, their third Levittown, became the site of one of urban sociology's most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans's The Levittowners. The product of two years of living in Levittown, the work chronicles the invention of a new community and its major institutions, the beginnings of social and political life, and the former city residents' adaptation to suburban living. Gans uses his research to reject the charge that suburbs are sterile and pathological. First published in 1967, The Levittowners is a classic of participant-observer ethnography that also paints a sensitive portrait of working-class and lower-middle-class life in America. This new edition features a foreword by Harvey Molotch that reflects on Gans's challenges to conventional wisdom. Levittown is the name of several large suburban housing developments created in the United States by William J. Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. Built after World War II for returning veterans and their new families, the communities offered attractive alternatives to cramped central city locations and apartments. The Veterans Administration and the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) guaranteed builders that qualified veterans could buy housing for a fraction of rental costs. The first Levittown home sold for $7,900 and in a short period of time, 17,000 units were sold, providing homes for 84,000 people. In addition to normal family dwellings, Levittowns provided private meeting areas, swimming pools, public parks, and recreational facilities. Production was modeled on assembly lines in 27 steps with construction workers trained to perform one step. A house could be built in one day, with 36 men, when effectively scheduled. This enabled quick and economical production of similar or identical homes with rapid recovery of costs. Standard Levittown houses included a white picket fence, green lawns, and modern appliances. Sales in the original Levittown began in March 1947. 1,400 homes were purchased during the first three hours., Pantheon Books [ A Division of Random House, Inc.], 1967, 2.5, Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1966. 4th print., rev.. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner.. [xvi], 188, [2] p. 20 cm. : Illustrations, Maps, Plans (21 maps and 10 diagrams). Footnotes. This is one of the Stackpole series of Military Classics. Foreword by Manor-General J. N. Kennedy, C.B., M.C. Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff (Operations). From Wikipedia: Alfred Higgins Burne (1886 1959) was a soldier and military historian. He invented the concept of Inherent Military Probability; in battles and campaigns where there is some doubt over what action was taken, Burne believed that the action taken would be one which a trained staff officer of the twentieth century would take. He was educated at Winchester School and RMA Woolwich, before being commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1906. He was awarded the DSO during the First World War and, during World War II, was Commandant of the 121st Officer Cadet Training Unit. He retired as a Lieutenant-Colonel. He was Military Editor of Chambers Encyclopedia from 1938 to 1957 and became an authority on the history of land warfare. He was a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Burne's approach has been criticised on the grounds that his concept of Inherent Military Probability puts modern military thinking and doctrine into the minds of mediaeval monarchs. However, it does treat war leaders as intelligent, thinking creatures, and veteran mediaeval leaders were often likely to come to the same conclusion as British staff officers, albeit by different thought processes., Stackpole Books, 1966, 3, New York: Collier Books, 1973. Revised Edition. First Collier Books Edition [stated]. Presumed First Printing. Trade paperback. Good.. 410, [2] p. maps. 21 cm. Occasional footnotes. Index. Previous owner's mailing label on half-title page. Embossed stamp on title page. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8 inches. Translation of Megilat yisurin. Originally published as The Scroll of Agony, this is a classic depiction of the Holocaust. Carefully hidden and preserved in a kerosene can, twenty years after the annihilation of the Warsaw Ghetto, it was discovered. Now reissued with recently found entries spanning April 4, 1941 through May 2, 1942, and a new Preface by Abraham H. Katsh, it is an extraordinary first-person record of the Nazi occupation and destruction of Warsaw's Jewish community. From an on-line posting on Abraham I. Katsh: "Polish-born American educator and researcher who was a scholar of Judaica and was credited with the addition of modern Hebrew to the curricula of American colleges; during the Cold War he persuaded Soviet officials to allow him to study and microfilm--and thus make available to scholars--thousands of Jewish documents they had seized and hidden (b. Aug. 10, 1908, --d. July 21, 1998)." Excerpts from The Jewish Virtual Library biography "Kaplan, Chaim Aron (1880-1942), educator and diarist of the Holocaust. In 1902 Kaplan founded a pioneering elementary Hebrew school, of which he was principal for 40 years....Kaplan began a personal diary as early as 1933. This trained him for the mission he undertook at the beginning of World War II, to devote all his efforts to preserving a record for posterity....his intention of objectivity is carried out with remarkable tenacity, and with increasing dedication in the face of hardship, as the dreadful events increased his own physical and emotional suffering and his anguish at the mounting tragedy around him....The diary has been preserved in toto, having been smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto before its total destruction. In 1942, he gave it to a Jewish friend named Rubinsztejn, who was working daily at forced labor outside the ghetto. Rubinsztejn smuggled the notebooks out one by one. At the worst moments, on the brink of destruction, Kaplan sustained himself with the hope that the diary would be saved; the fate of his chronicle was his main concern. The diary has been translated into English, German, French, Danish, and Japanese., Collier Books, 1973, 2.5, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. very good/very good. x, 323, [3] pages illus., notes, bibliographical note, index. Pencil erasure residue noted at a couple of places. Minor page discoloration noted. In 1912, four formidable personalities clashed in their quest for the Presidency--Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene Debs. In the course of this election, the Republican Party split, and Woodrow was elected by less than a majority of the popular vote. James Clarke Chace (October 16, 1931 - October 8, 2004) was an eminent historian, writing on American diplomacy and statecraft. His writings, known for elegant and even literary prose, often influenced American thought in policymaking his coining of the phrase "the indispensable nation" with Sidney Blumenthal to describe America was widely used when Secretary of State Madeleine Albright began including it in her speeches. Chace graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Classics. He went to France in 1954 to conduct graduate-study research on painter Eugène Delacroix and writer Charles Baudelaire, but soon found his interest drawn to the current intellectual arena of literature and politics, which led to an intense interest in French political writers including Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. He returned to France later the same year as a soldier and in 1955 and 1956 worked as an Army translator, which involved the translation of French newspapers for the Central Intelligence Agency. After his return to the United States his interest in foreign policy grew as he served as managing editor for East Europe, a political review of Soviet bloc affairs, from 1959 to 1969, during which time he wrote his book Conflict in the Middle East about the Six-Day War. In 1990, he was appointed Professor of Government at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, in upstate New York. He later helped found and chair Bard's international affairs program, the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA), in New York City. Chace's work focused on American statesmanship, the interplay of American interests with American values, and the use of American power. He believed that any statesman effectively leading a nation will understand that resources are limited including blood and political will and that in protecting the interests of the nation those resources cannot be overtaxed. Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 - October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. After working with several smaller unions, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the nation's first industrial unions. After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company organized a wildcat strike over pay cuts in the summer of 1894, Debs recruited many into the ARU. He called a boycott of the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars, in what became the nationwide Pullman Strike, affecting most lines west of Detroit, and more than 250,000 workers in 27 states. To keep the mail running, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison. Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times, including 1900 (earning 0.63% of the popular vote), 1904 (2.98%), 1908 (2.83%), 1912 (5.99%), and 1920 (3.41%), the last time from a prison cell. Debs was noted for his oratory, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a term of 10 years. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921., Simon & Schuster, 2004, 3<

2004, ISBN: 9780743203944

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. very good/very good. x, 323, [3] pages illus., notes, bibliographical note, index. Pencil erasure residue not… Mehr…

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. very good/very good. x, 323, [3] pages illus., notes, bibliographical note, index. Pencil erasure residue noted at a couple of places. Minor page discoloration noted. In 1912, four formidable personalities clashed in their quest for the Presidency--Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene Debs. In the course of this election, the Republican Party split, and Woodrow was elected by less than a majority of the popular vote. James Clarke Chace (October 16, 1931 - October 8, 2004) was an eminent historian, writing on American diplomacy and statecraft. His writings, known for elegant and even literary prose, often influenced American thought in policymaking his coining of the phrase "the indispensable nation" with Sidney Blumenthal to describe America was widely used when Secretary of State Madeleine Albright began including it in her speeches. Chace graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Classics. He went to France in 1954 to conduct graduate-study research on painter Eugène Delacroix and writer Charles Baudelaire, but soon found his interest drawn to the current intellectual arena of literature and politics, which led to an intense interest in French political writers including Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. He returned to France later the same year as a soldier and in 1955 and 1956 worked as an Army translator, which involved the translation of French newspapers for the Central Intelligence Agency. After his return to the United States his interest in foreign policy grew as he served as managing editor for East Europe, a political review of Soviet bloc affairs, from 1959 to 1969, during which time he wrote his book Conflict in the Middle East about the Six-Day War. In 1990, he was appointed Professor of Government at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, in upstate New York. He later helped found and chair Bard's international affairs program, the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA), in New York City. Chace's work focused on American statesmanship, the interplay of American interests with American values, and the use of American power. He believed that any statesman effectively leading a nation will understand that resources are limited including blood and political will and that in protecting the interests of the nation those resources cannot be overtaxed. Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 - October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. After working with several smaller unions, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the nation's first industrial unions. After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company organized a wildcat strike over pay cuts in the summer of 1894, Debs recruited many into the ARU. He called a boycott of the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars, in what became the nationwide Pullman Strike, affecting most lines west of Detroit, and more than 250,000 workers in 27 states. To keep the mail running, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison. Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times, including 1900 (earning 0.63% of the popular vote), 1904 (2.98%), 1908 (2.83%), 1912 (5.99%), and 1920 (3.41%), the last time from a prison cell. Debs was noted for his oratory, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a term of 10 years. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921., Simon & Schuster, 2004, 3<

2004, ISBN: 0743203941

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780743203944], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Simon & Schuster, New York], U.S. PRESIDENTS, 1912 ELECTION, WOODROW WILSON, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, EUGENE V. D… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780743203944], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Simon & Schuster, New York], U.S. PRESIDENTS, 1912 ELECTION, WOODROW WILSON, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, EUGENE V. DEBBS, BULL MOOSE PARTY, SOCIALIST PROGRESSIVES, Jacket, x, 323, [3] pages illus., notes, bibliographical note, index. Pencil erasure residue noted at a couple of places. Minor page discoloration noted. In 1912, four formidable personalities clashed in their quest for the Presidency--Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene Debs. In the course of this election, the Republican Party split, and Woodrow was elected by less than a majority of the popular vote. James Clarke Chace (October 16, 1931 - October 8, 2004) was an eminent historian, writing on American diplomacy and statecraft. His writings, known for elegant and even literary prose, often influenced American thought in policymaking â€" his coining of the phrase "the indispensable nation" with Sidney Blumenthal to describe America was widely used when Secretary of State Madeleine Albright began including it in her speeches. Chace graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Classics. He went to France in 1954 to conduct graduate-study research on painter Eugène Delacroix and writer Charles Baudelaire, but soon found his interest drawn to the current intellectual arena of literature and politics, which led to an intense interest in French political writers including Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. He returned to France later the same year as a soldier and in 1955 and 1956 worked as an Army translator, which involved the translation of French newspapers for the Central Intelligence Agency. After his return to the United States his interest in foreign policy grew as he served as managing editor for East Europe, a political review of Soviet bloc affairs, from 1959 to 1969, during which time he wrote his book Conflict in the Middle East about the Six-Day War. In 1990, he was appointed Professor of Government at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, in upstate New York. He later helped found and chair Bard's international affairs program, the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA), in New York City. Chace's work focused on American statesmanship, the interplay of American interests with American values, and the use of American power. He believed that any statesman effectively leading a nation will understand that resources are limited â€" including blood and political will â€" and that in protecting the interests of the nation those resources cannot be overtaxed. Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 - October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. After working with several smaller unions, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the nation's first industrial unions. After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company organized a wildcat strike over pay cuts in the summer of 1894, Debs recruited many into the ARU. He called a boycott of the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars, in what became the nationwide Pullman Strike, affecting most lines west of Detroit, and more than 250,000 workers in 27 states. To keep the mail running, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison. Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times, including 1900 (earning 0.63% of the popular vote), 1904 (2.98%), 1908 (2.83%), 1912 (5.99%), and 1920 (3.41%), the last time from a prison cell. Debs was noted for his, Books<