More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. When hundreds of thousands of Scots-Irish migrated to America in the ...
Originally published in 1978, Webb's classic novel of the Vietnam War follows three soldiers from different worlds who are plunged into a white-hot murderous realm of jungle warfare as it was fought by one Marine platoon in the An Hoa Basin in 1969. In the heat and horror of battle, they took on new identities, took on each other, and were each ...
Former Secretary of the Navy, Navy Cross recipient, and Marine officer James Webb lit the fires of controversy with this startling inside look at life at the U.S. Naval Academy when "A Sense of Honor" was first published in 1981. Some of his fellow Academy graduates attacked it as exaggerated and extreme, but Webb's portrayal of a gung-ho first ...
Narrated by a young member of General Douglas MacArthur's diplomatic team in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, this story revolves around the investigation of the devastation of Manila by fleeing Japanese troops who left the city in ashes with 100,000 people killed.
When he goes to Vietnam to recover the skeleton of an American MIA, ex-Marine Brandon Conley unexpectedly stumbles upon a chance to settle an old score from his combat days. What started as a routine mission becomes a deadly game of vengeance.
Collected in book form for the first--and possibly the last--time are hideous hairstyles culled from the chairs of hairdressers around the world. Photos throughout.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Presidio Press
Date Published: 1985
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8 1/2 h x 5 3/4w. Picture is scan of book not a stock photo. An interesting 210 page hard cover book with dust jacket. A book club edition. There is no additional printings listed. This volume covers the entire scope of the Easter Offensive using official records, interviews with participants, and captured North Vietnamese documents. Eighteen chapters on the subject, along with North Vietnamese order of Battle Nguyen Hue Offensive March, 1972 and US Navy's Land ... read more
Description: *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* 136 pp. + plates; softcover, library markings, spine neatly taped, overall very good. read more
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James C. Plant; Walter Loring Webb; J. R. Coolidge Jr; H. V. Von Holst; Fred T. Hodgeson; Glenn M. Hobbs; Frank O. Dufour;...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: American School of Correspondence
Date Published: 1912
Description: Fair. American School of Correspondence 1912 VOLUME 10 ONLY. about half the leather spine is chipped off, moderate edgewear to cloth covered boards, marblized end papers, rear hinge cracked but holding loosely, front hinge solid, clean tight illustrated pages. 410 pages. List of Plates 397-410. Index 363-395. clean tight illustrated plates, includes approximately 300 engravings. read more
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