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IN AN INSTANT LEE & BOB WOODRUFF ABC NEWS Anchor Hardback w/Dustcover
In An Instant - Lee & Bob Woodruff (ABC News Anchor)

A Family's Journey of Love and Healing

"What would you do in that instant if someone told you that it was the last time you would hold of hug or talk to your husband for over a month?....What would I have changed about that morning if I knew that all our lives would be blackened....with one single act of terrorism in a war?" - Lee Woodruff

In one of the most anticipated books of the year, Lee Woodruff, along with her husband, Bob Woodruff, shares the couple's never-before-told story of romance, resilience, and survivla following the tragedy that transformed their lives and gripped the nation.

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IN AN INSTANT LEE & BOB WOODRUFF ABC NEW

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Civil War

Tony Horwitz

Tradeback

In very good condition.

No rips, tears or missing pages.

Cover has little wear around the edges.

Some pages may have creases.

Some pages may have yellowing.

Some pages may have tiny black / brown spots from aging or printing error that in no way interfere with the legibility of the words.


Nonfiction

Civil War

History

Travel

United States History

American History

War

Politics

American Civil War



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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Civil War by Tony Horwitz ~ PB

"FRANKLIN AND WINSTON"AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF AN EPIC FRIENDSHIP
As two of history's most towering leaders, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill shared a close friendship, which was instrumental in defeating tyranny and piloting the free world to victory in World War II. As must read for history buffs

Franklin and Winston

The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw Hardcover FIRST EDITION Illustrated 1998
Author: Tom Brokaw
Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Condition: Pre-Owned in Good Condition. Handwritten dedication written on interior page next to title page in ink. Front interior flap Dust Jacket has a fold and the corner is cut. Book itself is in Excellent structural condition. No other tears or flaws noted. Comes with original Dust Jacket (damage as noted). Please see photographs for details as they are considered part of the description.
Release Date: 1998
Weight: 1 lb 11.1 oz.
No. of Pages: 432
Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.25 inches
Publisher: Random House
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0375502026
Additional Information: First Edition. Illustrated.

SYNOPSIS:
In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War.

The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw Hardcover FIRST EDITION Illustrated 1998

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Paperback. Shows signs of wear and some damage to the cover, but pages are clean and unmarked. Free shipping.

 “In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. ”

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

We Were Soldiers... Once and Young, LtGen Harold Moore, Joseph Galloway
Hardcover Book with Dustjacket

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In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. How these men persevered - sacrificed themselves for their comrades and never gave up - makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating.

General Moore and Joseph Galloway, the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting, have interviewed hundreds of men who fought there, including the North Vietnamese commanders. 

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We Were Soldiers... Once and Young, LtGen Harold Moore, Joseph Galloway, Book

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*A biography of the extraordinary Swede who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews--by a combination of diplomacy, bullying, ingenuity, and outright audacity--and who, having vanished in 1945, is thought by some to survive still in a Soviet gulag


                              About the Author
*Kati Marton, an award-winning fo byrmer NPR and  correspondent, is the author of Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History, a New York Times bestseller, as well as Wallenberg, The Polk Conspiracy, A Death in Jerusalem, and a novel, An American Woman. Mother of a son and a daughter, she lives in New York with her husband, Richard Holbrooke.

Wallenberg 1st Edition W/ Dust Jacket VTG 1982 By Kati M. Like New Collectible

An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton's My Life is a refreshingly candid look at the former president as a son, brother, teacher, father, husband, and public figure. Clinton painstakingly outlines the history behind his greatest successes and failures, including his dedication to educational and economic reform, his war against a "vast right-wing operation" determined to destroy him, and the "morally indefensible" acts for which he was nearly impeached. My Life is autobiography as therapy--a personal history written by a man trying to face and banish his private demons.
Clinton approaches the story of his youth with gusto, sharing tales of giant watermelons, nine-pound tumors, a charging ram, famous mobsters and jazz musicians, and a BB gun standoff. He offers an equally energetic portrait of American history, pop culture, and the evolving political landscape, covering the historical events that shaped his early years (namely the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK) a

My Life by Bill Clinton

Please see photos. Partially separating at the spine. Some wear and staining due to age. Ships in a box.

Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II Hardcover Landmark Robert Loomis

Unbroken, A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by NYT Best Selling Author Laura Hillenbrand, hardback in great condition

Unbroken, A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

Book Title
A. Lincoln A Biography
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN
9780812975703
Item Length
9.1in
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year
2010
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.8in
Author
Ronald C. White, Ronald C. White Jr.
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Presidents & Heads of State, Political, American Government / Executive Branch
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
36 Oz
Number of Pages
816 Pages
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A. Lincoln A Biography (2010 Paperback) Very Good

"Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War" by Robert K. Massie is a nonfiction history book published by Random House Publishing Group in 1991. This first edition vintage hardcover book with a dust jacket has 1007 pages and explores the military and political tensions in Europe during the early 1900s, focusing on Germany and Great Britain in the lead up to World War I.

Dreadnought - Robert K. Massie - 1st Edition - Hardcover/Dust Jacket - 1991

hardcover, dust jacket has some wear, particularly on bottom edge of the spine. Slight crease on back djkt.

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.

The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft,

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand  A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and

No Other Choice by George Blake (Hardcover)

When George Blake, a Senior Officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service, was sentenced in 1961 to forty-two years' imprisonment for spying for the KGB, the judge said he had undone most of the work done by British Intelligence since the war. Blake said nothing. When Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison five and a half years later, the British press said it was the escape of the century and that the KGB must have masterminded it.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House UK (October 15, 1990)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0224030671
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0224030670
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.38 pounds

Condition: Interior is clean, no writing/underlining/highlighting on pages. Binding is sound and sturdy. Minor edge/corner wear to cover. Overall a nice copy in good condition. 

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No Other Choice by George Blake (Hardcover)

A Bright Shining Lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
- Laura Hillenbrand

ISBN: 9780812974492

Condition: Pre-Owned Fair

Good condition with slight wear.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

The Untold Story of the Wartime Race to Build the Pentagon - and to Restore It Sixty Years Later.

The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds. In astonishingly short order, Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell conceived and built an institution that ranks with the White House, the Vatican, and a handful of other structures as symbols recognized around the world. Now veteran military reporter Steve Vogel reveals for the first time the remarkable story of the Pentagon’s construction, from it’s dramatic birth to its rebuilding after the September 11 attack.

Very good condition.

The Pentagon: A History  Hardcover

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival by Laura Hillenbrand 2010 Hardcover

Like New condition. No wear. See pictures for details.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival by Laura Hillenbrand 2010 Hardcover

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Editorial reviews
A seventeen-year-old who enlisted in the army in 1941 writes to describe the Bataan Death March. Other members of the greatest generation describe their war — in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and Midway — as well as their life on the home front. In this beautiful American family album of stories, reflections, memorabilia, and photographs, history comes alive and is preserved, in people’s own words and through photographs and time lines that commemorate important dates and events. Starting with the Depression and Pearl Harbor, on through the war in Europe and the Pacific, this unusual book preserves a people’s rich historical heritage and the legacy of the heroism of a nation.

Product information
Publisher	‎Random House; First Edition (May 1, 2001)
Language	‎English
Hardcover	‎314 pages
ISBN-13	‎.       978-0375505812
Item Weight	‎2.18 pounds

Tom Brokaw An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation

Intrigue. Alliances. Romance. Wars.  This bestselling book is a great read for history lovers. Very good preloved condition. Paperback book with 577 pages includes color photos. Non smoking home. Retailed for $20.00.

Catherine The Great Portrait Of

In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love & moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone

It started with an itch—first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion & the 6hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor & a few weeks shy of her 23 birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35% chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to NY she had lost her job, her apartment & her independence. She would spend much of the next 4 years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life & chronicling the saga in a column for The NY Times

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Suleika Jaouad Between Two Kingdoms A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Softcove Book

The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters & Reflections
Hardcover Book By Tom Brokaw
A powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering number-one best seller The Greatest Generation. In the phenomenal best seller Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw paid affecting tribute to those who gave the world so much - and who left an enduring legacy of courage and conviction. The Greatest Generation Speaks collects the vast outpouring of letters Brokaw received from men and women eager to share their intensely personal stories of a momentous time in America’s history. Some letters tell of the front during the war, others recall loved ones in harm’s way in distant places. They offer first-hand accounts of battles, poignant reflections on loneliness, exuberant expressions of love, and somber feelings of loss.

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Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters & Reflections - Hardcover Book By Tom Brokaw

Book is in excellent condition with minimal signs of wear. See pictures for more detail.

Looking for Trouble: The Classic Memoir of a Trailblazing War Correspondent

In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution.

Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans’ benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.

Some wear. Very good condition.

Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier  Paperbac

Warrior The Autobiography of Ariel. Sharon pub Steimatsky ltd , 1989. Israeli first edition full number line. Hardcover. Good/good. ISBN 0671605550. Copyright 1989 by Simon & Schuster Inc. Israeli 1st ed. Steimatsky ltd full number line Dust jacket is in good condition some wear Boards are clean , unmarked. Pages signs of tanning otherwise clean, unmarked. Israel's newest prime minister as of February 6, 2001, Ariel Sharon is a dynamic and controversial leader. Hero Israel's .wars, daring ,successful commander in Israel's extraordinary military history, Sharon has always been a warrior, whether the enemies were hostile Arab nations, terrorists, Time magazine, or rival politicians. Public man is well known -- aggressive in battle, hard-line in politics -- but the private man has always been obscured by Sharon's dazzling career,powerful personality. In this compelling, dramatic auto-biography, Sharon appears for the first time: a complex man, a loving father, figure of courage,

Warrior The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon   Israeli 1st ed  1765 alpha

With the biographer’s rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings to life a crowd of glittery figures: the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz; the young, ambitious Winston Churchill; the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow; Britain’s greatest twentieth-century foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey; and Jacky Fisher, the eccentric admiral who revolutionized the British navy and brought forth the first true battleship, the H.M.S. Dreadnought.
 
Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tragedy in this powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, Dreadnought is history at its most riveting.

Some wear. Good condition.

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War  Hardcover

"Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand. Published in 2014 by Random House. Movie Tie-In Edition.

"In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will."

Book is in Great condition! Looks almost like new! A little rubbing on the edges. NO spine creases! Back bottom corner has a small fold

Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand; 2014; Random House

A Bright Shining Lie:John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan. Vintage 1988 1stEdition/1stPrinting Random House hardcover w/dj in like new condition (please see photo 6 for inscription to previous owner). Book dimensions are 9.5×6.5×2 inches,2.9 lbs.,862 pages. The author's 16 year project to bring this book into fruition, this is story of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann and his two tours of duty (1962 & 1965) in the Vietnam War. An outspoken critic of how the American military was handling operations in the Vietnam war, he believed that the U.S. had the capability to win in Vietnam. The arrogance and corruption of the U.S. military system in the 1960's and the incompetence of the South Vietnamese Army were the focal points of his frustration.  Vann was killed in a helicopter crash in 1972 while serving his second tour. His legacy and his story live on in this book. Message me with questions,and/or purchase price requests  for consideration. Shipped free via USPS Media Mail.

A Bright Shining Lie:John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

By 1938, hundreds of Italian intellectuals, lawyers & journalists, professors & scientists had escaped Mussolini’s fascist government & taken refuge in Paris. There, amid the struggles of émigré life, they founded an Italian resistance, with an underground press that smuggled news & encouragement back to Italy. Fighting fascism with typewriters, they produced 512 clandestine newspapers. This book is their story

Paris, a winter night in 1938: a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers’ hotel. But this is no romantic traged–it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini’s fascist secret police, & is meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine émigré newspaper. Carlo Weisz, who has fled from Trieste & secured a job as a foreign correspondent with the Reuters bureau, becomes the new editor

Weisz is, at that moment, in Spain, reporting on the last campaign of the Spanish civil war. But as soon as he returns to Paris, he is pursued by the French Sûreté, by agents of the OVRA & by officer

Alan Furst, The Foreign Correspondent (Night Soldiers) Hardcover Book

A Memoir in Books.

For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading—Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita—their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran.
Azar Nafisi’s luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran.

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