2010, ISBN: 9781405001083

Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1986. Second Edition. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. very good/good. 24 cm, 557 pages, illus., bibliography, index, former owner's embossed st… Mehr…

Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1986. Second Edition. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. very good/good. 24 cm, 557 pages, illus., bibliography, index, former owner's embossed stamp on several pages, DJ in plastic sleeve, tear at rear DJ. The author was the founding publisher of American Heritage, the innovative magazine in hardcover book form that chronicled various periods of U.S. history and won a Pulitzer Prize for its "Picture History of the Civil War". Parton was also founding publisher of Horizon magazine and the 1940s newspaper the Los Angeles Independent. The eclectic publisher had a lifelong love affair with words. He wrote the annual musical comedy of the Hasty Pudding Club as a Harvard undergraduate, and he was a writer, editor and management assistant for 13 years with Time Inc. Parton later served as president of Encyclopaedia Britannica, head of the National Advertising Review Board, and assistant librarian of Congress. He was the author of the well-received 1986 book "Air Force Spoken Here." But Parton's greatest legacy remains American Heritage. General Ira Clarence Eaker (April 13, 1896 - August 6, 1987) was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Eaker, as second-in-command of the prospective Eighth Air Force, was sent to England to form and organize its bomber command. However while he struggled to build up airpower in England, the organization of the Army Air Forces kept evolving and he was named commander of the Eighth Air Force on December 1, 1942. Although his background was in single-engine fighter aircraft, Eaker became the architect of a strategic bombing force that ultimately numbered forty groups of 60 heavy bombers each, supported by a subordinate fighter command of 1,500 aircraft, most of which was in place by the time he relinquished command at the start of 1944. Eaker then took overall command of four Allied air forces based in the Mediterranean Theater of operations, and by the end of World War II had been named Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces. He worked in the aerospace industry following his retirement from the military, then became a newspaper columnist. As Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, Eaker had under his command the Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Forces and the British Desert and Balkan Air Forces. He did not approve of the plan to bomb Monte Cassino in February 1944, considering it a dubious military target, but ultimately acquiesced and gave in to pressure from ground commanders. Historians of the era now generally believe Eaker's skepticism was correct and that the ancient abbey at Monte Cassino could have been preserved without jeopardizing the allied advance through Italy. On April 30, 1945, General Eaker was named deputy commander of the Army Air Forces and Chief of the Air Staff. He retired on August 31, 1947, and was promoted to lieutenant general in the newly established United States Air Force on the retired list June 29, 1948. Almost 40 years after his retirement, Congress passed special legislation awarding four-star status in the U.S. Air Force to General Eaker, prompted by retired Air Force Reserve major general and Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) and endorsed by President Ronald Reagan. On April 26, 1985, Chief of Staff General Charles A. Gabriel and Ruth Eaker, the general's wife, pinned on his fourth star., Adler & Adler, 1986, Great Britain: Odhams, 1968. Hardback. The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Slightly rolled spine. Slight mark to bottom edge of back cloth. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Technical Advisor Dr. Hans-Adolf Jacobsen. Translated From the German by Arnold Pomerans.Contents: The End of the 'Greater German Reich'. Foreword by IRA C. Eaker, Lieutenant-General, USAF (Ret.). The Road to Catastrophe. The Conquest of Germany. The Division of Germany. The Meeting on the Elbe and the Division of Germany.The German Collapse in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Austria. The German Collap[se in Scandinavia. The Red Flag Over the Reichs Chancellery. The War at Sea in the Atlantic and the Baltic, 1945. The War in the Air Over Germany. The Military Victory of the Allies. The Beginning of Political Tension Between West and East. Europe at the End of the Second World War/ The Collapse of Japan's 'Co-Prosperity Sphere' in S.E. Asia. A God is Defeated. America's Attack on Japan's Inner Defences. The Recapture of Japanese-Occupied East and South-East Asia. Crucial Battles in the Pacific. U.S. Air Supremacy. The Fateful Decision. A God is Vanquished. The Struggle Against Colonialsim. Asia at the End of the Second World War. The Consequences of the Second World War in Europe and Asia. The Catastrophe in Figures. Illustrated throughout. 432 pp. (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, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). 1st Odhams Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto. Hardback., Odhams, 1968, 2010. Dublin ; Portland, OR, Four Courts, c2010. 24 cm. 400 pages with 16 pages of plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. 1972 proved to be by far the bloodiest and most eventful year of the Northern Ireland conflict. The January shootings in Derry precipitated the downfall of the Stormont administration in March. British military reinforcements struggled to cope with the ferocity of the IRA's escalating campaign, the worst manifestations of which were no warning attacks such as those in Claudy and Belfast on Bloody Friday. Yet 1972, regarded by republicans as their 'Year of Victory, ' arguably marked both the high point of their campaign and the beginning of its demise. Loyalist paramilitarism was rampant during the year, as both the UVF and UDA were responsible for an increasing number of sectarian attacks and stand-offs with the British Army. 1972 also witnessed a further hemorrhaging of unionism, the emergence of the potentially sinister Vanguard movement, and the substitution of Westminster grandees for locally-elected politicians when it came to the governance of the region. This book tells the story of the most extraordinary year of the modern Northern conflict (Publisher), 2010, 2003. London, Macmillan, 2003. 25 cm. xxv, 486 pages. With 8 pages of plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. This is a detailed history and analysis of the IRA from the dramatic events of the Easter Rising in 1916 to the peace process. In it he examines the guerrilla war of 1919-1921, the partitioning of Ireland in the 1920s and the Irish Civil War of 1922-23. Here, too, are the IRA campaigns in Northern Ireland and Britain during the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Richard English, explains how the Provisionals were born out of the turbulence generated by the 1960s civil rights movement. He examines: the escalating violence; the split in the IRA that produced the Provisionals; the introduction of internment in 1971; and the tragedy of Bloody Sunday in 1972. He then details the prison war over political status, culminating in the hunger strikes of the early 1980s, moves on to describe the Provisionals' subsequent emergence as a more commitedly political force, and concludes with the peace process. (Publisher), 2003<

ISBN: 9781405001083

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