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Fair in Fair jacket. Ex Libris. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. Jacket rubbed, chipped edges. Boards have light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings. Prior owner name stamped on fep, bep. Photo section detached in a block, glued binding weak at p.110.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. pp.276 with index, b/w photos clean tight copy but for freckles top edge, d/j wrapped in mylar, former owner name stamped on frontpiece Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Dust jacket in good condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. DJ has light edge wear with scuffing and smudging as well as tearing. Boards have light shelf rubbing with scuffing and smudging as well as bumping. Binding is sound with cocking of the spine. Endpages have age-toning and smudging with foxing. Page edges have moderate age-toning with foxing and smudging. Interior pages are age-toned and smudging. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Edition:
First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
Publisher:
Harper & Row
Published:
1976
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18836183664
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Very good in Good jacket. x, 326 pages. The dust jacket has wear, tears, soiling, chips and is price-clipped. Benjamin F. Schemmer is a West Point and Army Ranger graduate, and a former paratrooper. He is the author of The Raid. He has written for The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times and has long been a frequent lecturer at military command, staff, and war colleges. He died October 12, 2003 in Naples, Florida. Minutes after 2 A.M. on November 21, 1970, more than one hundred U.S. war planes shattered the dark calm of the skies over Hanoi. Their mission: rescue sixty-one American POWs from Son Tay prison. Less than thirty minutes later, the raid was over, but no Americans had been rescued. The prisoners had been moved from Son Tay four and a half months earlier and that wasn't all. Part of the raiding force landed at the wrong compound, a “school” bristling with enemy soldiers, but the soldiers weren't Vietnamese...Replete with fascinating insights into the workings of high-level intelligence and military command, The Raid is Benjamin Schemmer's unvarnished account of the courageous mission that was quickly labeled an intelligence failure by Congress and a Pentagon blunder by the world press. Determined to ferret out the truth, Schemmer uncovers one of the CIA's most carefully guarded secrets. From the planning and live-fire rehearsals to the explosive reactions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff watching the drama unfold to the aftermath as the White House and Pentagon struggled for damage control, Schemmer tackles the tough questions. What really happened during the twenty-seven minutes the raiders spent on the ground? Did the CIA know the whole time that the Americans were gone? Had the Agency in fact been responsible for the POWs being moved? And perhaps most intriguing, why was the rescue—though it never freed a single prisoner—not a failure after all?
