David j halberstam (51 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Revised ed. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written. With its numerous firsthand recollections of life in the war zone, The Making of a Quagmire penetrates to the essence of what went wrong in Vietnam. Although its focus is the Kennedy era, its analysis of the blunders and misconceptions of American military and political leaders holds true for the entire war. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written. With its numerous firsthand recollections of life in the war zone, The Making of a Quagmire penetrates to the essence of what went wrong in Vietnam. Although its focus is the Kennedy era, its analysis of the blunders and misconceptions of American military and political leaders holds true for the entire war.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written. With its numerous firsthand recollections of life in the war zone, The Making of a Quagmire penetrates to the essence of what went wrong in Vietnam. Although its focus is the Kennedy era, its analysis of the blunders and misconceptions of American military and political leaders holds true for the entire war. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written. With its numerous firsthand recollections of life in the war zone, The Making of a Quagmire penetrates to the essence of what went wrong in Vietnam. Although its focus is the Kennedy era, its analysis of the blunders and misconceptions of American military and political leaders holds true for the entire war.…

paperback. Condizione: Good. Clean text, light wear to edges. Ships next business day from NC.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Revised Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. xxv,196 pp. Minor shelf/handling wear, nearly as issued, with firm, square binding, clean and unmarked interior. Revised ed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hard Cover. Condizione: good. Condizione sovraccoperta: good. Platt & Munk Great Writers Collection. for ages 12 & up; x 502pp; text clean, ex. library with glue ghost on back ep, ink marks on contents pg & stamps on eps; 8" tall; corners of cover bumped; wear to edges of rubbed color illustrated dj. Robert J. Lee, dj (illustratore). Hardcover (dj).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition illustrated softcover wraps. Includes List of Other Books by David Halberstam; Author Dedication; Glossary of Military Terms; List of Maps; Note on Military Map Symbols; Introduction; Epilogue; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; Afterword by Russell Baker; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with maps. PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST. "Halberstam at his very best.Riveting." - The Wall Street Journal. "In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home." - The New York Times. "For the light it sheds on neglected history, and for its resonance today, The Coldest Winter deserves our attention, and its palce beside The Best and the Brighest on the shelves of contemporary history." - The Cleveland Plain Dealer. "[Halberstam] alternates between descriptions of the politics back home and the battles on the front lines. One is a tale of cynical double-dealing, the other of bravery and zeal. This is a fine last testament." "[The Coldest Winter] is possibly the best one-volume history of the conflict yet." - Newsweek. "The late David Halberstam's last gift to the world should make the Korean War 'forgotten' no more." - Sunday Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. "David Halberstam.brings angry wisdom to a conflict that, after the moral clarity of WWII, seemed remote and incomprehensible. It was the miserable prototyple for wars to come." - Time. "The Coldest Winter is a superb conjoining of all the factors of this tragic war: the military tactics and strategy of both sides; the international diplomacy; the internal politics; the personalities of the various plyaers. A great work." - Lt. General Harold G. Moore (Ret.), co-author of We Were Soldiers Once . and Young. Metsch, Fritz (book design); Pugliese, Paul J. (maps) (illustratore).…

Condizione: New.

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT COMPELLING: NEW First Edition LOA hardcover (Orig. 1998) First Printing: NEW LOA slipcase w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, NEW emerald-green silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-green LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & green & white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ green silk page-marker ribbon bound-in from top, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.06" x 8.12" x 1.24", 0.60 kg, xvi+894 (910) pp / Slip-cased: 5.36" x 8.48" x 1.36", 0.70 kg * CONTENTS: Texts (1-770), Maps (771), Chronology, 1940-1995 (775), Biographical Notes (804), Note on the Texts (817), Notes (822), Glossary (836), Index (841) * 32 pp. insert of b-w portrait photographs of notable participating journalists presented on excellent gloss-laminated paper between pp. 370 & 371 * ABOUT THE BOOK: In yet another brilliant addition to the LOA collection of great American literature, "Reporting Vietnam" brings together writings (drawn from original newspaper & magazine reports & contemporary books) of more than 80 remarkable writers to create an unprecedented mosaic view of America's longest war. First published for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, this unique two-volume anthology from the Library of America evokes a turbulent and controversial period in American history and journalism. Drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary books, this volume along with its companion brings together the work of over eighty remarkable writers to create an unprecedented mosaic view of the war and its impact on an increasingly fractured American society. The first volume traces the deepening American involvement in South Vietnam from the first deaths of American advisers in 1959 through the controversial battle of ?Hamburger Hill? in 1969. Malcolm Browne, Neil Sheehan, and David Halberstam report on the guerrilla warfare of the early 1960s; Jack P. Smith, Ward Just, and Peter Arnett experience the terrors of close-range combat in the Central Highlands; Marguerite Higgins and Frances FitzGerald observe South Vietnamese politics; Jonathan Schell records the destructive effects of American firepower in Quang Ngai; Tom Wolfe captures the cool courage of navy pilots over North Vietnam. Writers who covered the bitter controversy at home are included as well?Meg Greenfield describing an early teach-in, Norman Mailer at the Pentagon March, Jeffrey Blankfort exploring the sorrowful impact of the war on a small town in Ohio. Thomas Johnson and Wallace Terry examine the changing attitudes of African-American soldiers fighting America?s first fully integrated war. Included in full is Daniel Lang?s Casualties of War, the haunting story of a five-man reconnaissance patrol choosing between good and evil. This volume contains a detailed chronology of the war, historical maps, biographical profiles of the journalists, explanatory notes, a glossary of military terms, an index, and a 32-page insert of photographs of the correspondents, many from private collections and never before seen. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "This splendid collection testifies to the courage, endurance & swallowed anger of an extraordinary group of writers, who, by sharing the agony, earned their right to report it." - John LeCarre * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & internationally via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL. …

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 206 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background information that was unavailable in the mid-1960s when the book was written. With its numerous firsthand recollections of life in the war zone, The Making of a Quagmire penetrates to the essence of what went wrong in Vietnam. Although its focus is the Kennedy era, its analysis of the blunders and misconceptions of American military and political leaders holds true for the entire war. …

Hardback. Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. 2016. hardcover. . . . . .