And webb willard j (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition - first printing. No dust jacket as issued. Dark red boards with gilt JCS seal on front and lettering on spine. 159 pages without index. 11 1/4 inches high by 8 3/4 inches wide.

Condizione: very good. 28 cm, 221, wraps, illus. (some in color), very minor marks to covers. Foreword by Gen. John Shalikashvilli, Chair of the Joint Chiefs.

Condizione: very good. 28 cm, 221, illus. (some in color), appendices, notes, slight soiling to boards. Foreword by Gen. John Shalikashvilli, Chair of the Joint Chiefs.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover without dust jacket, bound in black leatherette over boards with silver lettering and decorations on the front cover and spine. Binding is tight and strong. Corners are slightly bumped. Pages are bright and clean. Title page dated 2007. No apparent copyright date. 521 pages. A very nice copy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it s a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 29 cm. x, 159, [3] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some color). Four Appendices. Notes. Foreword by Lieutenant General Hansford T. Johnson, Director, Joint Staff. Mr. Webb was chief of the JCS Historical Division before retiring in 1993. He wrote about the organizational development of the joint chiefs, as well as producing several volumes about the JCS and the Vietnam War. For his work, he received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Award. Mr. Webb continued to use his knowledge of history and architecture in retirement. He wrote articles for the Arlington Historical Magazine and wrote a book with his wife. Published in 2003, "Glebe Houses of Colonial Virginia" described the surviving homes that had once been provided to ministers by local parishes. Dr. Cole was also a historian with the Joint Staff. This includes brief biographies of: Omar Nelson Bradley, Arthur William Radford, Nathan Farragut Twining, Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, Maxwell Davenport Taylor, Earle Gilmore Wheeler, Thomas Hinman Moorer, George Scratchley Brown, David Charles Jones, John William Vesley, Jr., William James Crown, Jr. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) is, by U.S. law, the highest-ranking and senior-most military officer in the United States Armed Forces and is the principal military advisor to the President, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. While the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff outranks all other commissioned officers, they are prohibited by law from having operational command authority over the armed forces; however, the Chairman does assist the President and the Secretary of Defense in exercising their command functions.…