3 BOOKS ON CHINA

All three of these former library books are hardbacked and all in about the same shape. Descriptions follow.

CHINA SINCE 1911
By George Moseley
1969, First U.S. Edition, 192 pages. This book is in pretty nice shape with no serious wear to speak of.
First published in England under the title China: Empire to People's Republic. Chapter titles: 1 Collapse of the Empire; 2 The Rise of the Koumintang; 3 Chaing Kai-shek between the Communists and the Japanese; 4 War and Civil War; 5 Consolidation of the New Regime; 6 The Era of the First Five-Year Plan; 7 Veering away from Moscow; 8 A Maoist China.

TURNCOAT
AN AMERICAN'S 12 YEARS IN COMMUNIST CHINA
The Story of Morris R. Wills
as told to J. Robert Moskin
1968 (first edition 1966), 186 pages, B/W photographs. This book too is in nice condition. The dust jacket is a little worn and has some small rips in the top spine area.
From the inside flap: "Wills describes candidly his confrontation with communist officials and his insights into the minds of the Chinese people. In a time when thousands of Americans are meeting Asian Communism, here is a dramatic first-person account of the strange world behind the Bamboo Curtain."

TAIWAN
THE OTHER CHINA
By I. G. Edwards
1971, maybe 1stED, 160 pages, B/W photographs and maps. This one has a bit more wear than the others. The top and bottom edges of the cover show some wear and the dust jacket as well.
Chapter titles: 1 Ilha Formosa, 2 The Dutch and the Pirates, 3 The Kingdom of Koxinga, 4 Taiwan Under the Manchus, 5 The Fall of Taiwan, 6 The Japanese in Taiwan, 7 Troublesome Years, 8 The Birth of a New China, 9 Taiwan Under the Nationalist Chinese, 10 Taiwan Today, 11 Taiwan Looks to Tommorow.

Price:  $7.00
Shipp: $3.00
Total: $10.00

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAND WARFARE
IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Est. 1834

1977, 248 pages, B/W and color photographs, maps and illustrations. This is a really big book (8.75" X 11.75") and it's in pretty good shape. No dust jacket and the cover has some markings on it, but the book and binding itself are fine.
This is a really neat book with lots of great pictures and descriptions of all the major conflicts from 1900 until it was published in 1977. Featuring battle maps with descriptions and histories of important weapons and machinery.

Price:  $8.00
Shipp: $3.00
Total: $11.00

2 BOOKS ON TRUE STORIES OF U.S. ESPIONAGE

Both of these harbacked, former library books are very nice. Descriptions follow.

THE TARGET IS DESTROYED
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO FLIGHT 007 AND WHAT AMERICA KNEW ABOUT IT
By Seymour M. Hersh
1986, First Edition, 282 pages, cover price $17.95. This book is in really nice shape and is possibly uncirculated.
From the inside flap: "'The Target Is Destroyed' tells why Flight 007 was off course; why the russians argued among themselves moments before the shooting; why the Reagan administration maintains to this day a stance of shock and revulsion; why the russians never once backed down on their insistence that 007 was a spy plane; and most important, what American intelligence knew - and how soon."

FAMILY OF SPIES
INSIDE THE JOHN WALKER SPY RING
By Pete Earley
1988, maybe 1stED, 385 pages. This book is uncirculated but the dust jacket is just a little bit of wear on it.
From the inside flap: "On the night of May 19, 1985, John Anthony Walker, Jr., deposited documants containing 129 stolen naval secrets wrapped in a plastic bag at an isolated KGB dead drop near Poolesville, Maryland. Then he drove on to another designated drop point to pick up the bundle of cash, more than $200,000, that was to be his payment. There was nothing there. Disturbed, Walker went back to retrieve the plastic bag. It was gone. He reluctantly returned to his Rockville motel room, conviced he had at last been discovered by the FBI - but when there was no effort to stop or arrest him, it seemed likelier that the russians had simply screwed up. In his nearly 20 years of treason, of spying for the USSR, this had happened twice before.
"But this time John Walker was wrong."
This book is based on exclusive interviews with John Walker, Jr., Arthur Walker, Michael Walker, and Jerry Whitworth, members of the most damaging spy ring ever to operate in the history of the United States.

Price:  $6.00
Shipp: $3.00
Total:   $9.00

GERMANY FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD
VOL. IV
By Wolfgang Menzel

MCMII is 1902 (I think), Hardback, 425 pages. This former library book is obviously pretty old. It's not in sparkly new condition, but considering it's age, I would say it's in decent condition with no serious wear to mention.
This is Volume 4 of "Menzel's Germany" from the "nations of the World" series. It covers the events from CCXLIV "The Rise of Prussia" to around the turn of the 20th century when it was published. Translated from the Fourth German Edition.

Price:  $5.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:  $7.00

THE FAUST-BALL TUNNEL
GERMAN POWs IN AMERICA AND THEIR GREAT ESCAPE
By John Hammond Moore

1978, First Edition, Hardback, 268 pages, cover price $8.95, B/W photographs. This old library books is in pretty good shape but the bottom edges of the cover have some wear.
From the inside flap: "Two days before Christmas, 1944, twenty-five German prisoners of war broke out of their Arizona prison camp and crawled their way to freedom alng a 178-foot tunnel... From recently declassified materials and extensive interviews with the participants, John Hammond Moore tells the full, incredible story of their spectacular escape... Papago Park near Phoenix presented a unique opportunity for escape. It was not far from the Mexican border... Furthermore, many of the Germans imprisoned there were among the toughest and smartest U-Boat commanders and their crews... [They escaped by] Using coal shovels issued them by volunteering to build a volleyball (faustball) field in their compound.

Price:  $6.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:   $8.00

2 BOOKS ON EUROPE & POLITICS

WESTERN EUROPE SINCE 1945
By D.W. Urwin
1968, maybe 1stEd, Hardback, 301 pages. This library book is in great shape and looks nearly uncirculated except for some really odd looking wear on the spine of the dust jacket.
Fomr the inside flap: "Since Europe does not live in a vacuum, it affects and is affected by international politics. The book therefore assesses Europe's role in international affairs, analising the importance of the United Nations and American and Russian politics, and discussing the development of the Cold War, with some emphasis on the importance for Western Europe of Berlin and Korea. A chapter on decolonisation examines political events in Asia and Africa which have concerned Western Europe. The result is therefore not only an exhaustive study of European countries in relation to each other but a comprehensive assessment of the role of Europe in a world context."

EUROPE SINCE 1939
By Arthur J. May
1966, maybe 1st Ed, Hardback, 787 pages B/W photographs. This book is in really good shape as well. No major wear to speak of.
From the inside cover: "Presenting recent European history in terms helpful for understanding the present, Professor May's work deals with the history of Europe from the aftermath of World War I into the 1960s. It is divided into four parts: the background and course of World War II, the nations since 1945, postwar developments in international affairs, and the social and intellectual record of the entire period."

Price:  $10.00
Shipp:   $3.50
Total:   $13.50

THE GERMAN PROBLEM RECONSIDERED
GERMANY AND THE WORLD ORDER,
1870 TO THE PRESENT
By David Calleo

1978, maybe 1stEd, Hardback, 239 pages. This old library book is in awful good shape with no real wear to speak of. Printed on good heavy paper.
The author, David Calleo is (or was): "Professor of European Studies, Director of the European Studies Program, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies." From the inside flap: "In this provocative book, David Calleo surveys German history - not to present new material, but to look afresh at the old... Through these broad speculative essays, Calleo hopes to encourage a more balanced understanding of Germany's position in modern history, one less obviously tailored to fit the preconceptions of Germany's victors and also more relevant to the future."

Price:  $6.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:  $8.00

BYZANTIUM
GREATNESS AND DECLINE
By Charles Diehl

1957, maybe 1stEd, Hardback, 366 pages, cover price $8.50, B/W photographs. The dust jacket is a little beat up but the book itself is fine and the binging is still fine.
From the Rutgers Byzantine Series. From the inside flap: "BYZANTIUM: Greatness and Decline is not a conventional, chronological history. It is rather a survey of the Empire as a human orginization, an analysis of its institutions, modes of life, and forms of art, and a synthesis of its accomplishment. As an introduction to the Byzantine civilization it is without peer." I've read over half of it and it's a good book if you're interested in studying Byzantium. The author though, in true atheistic fashion, does not understand the role of religion on people's and a society's life.

Price:  $6.00
Shipp: $2.50.
Total:   $8.50

A HEARTBEAT AWAY
THE INVESTIGATION & RESIGNATION OF
VICE PRESIDENT SPIRO T. AGNEW
By Richard M. Cohen
and Jules Witcover

1974 First Edition, Hardback, 373 pages, B/W photographs. This book's in nice shape but the dust jacket is a little beat up.
From the inside cover: "In A Heartbeat Away the investigative talents of Richard M. Cohen and Jules Witcover, two reporters for the Washington Post, provide the citizenry of this country with a minute-by-minute account of the details behind one of the moreindigestible of recent Washington scandals: the extraordinary drama that made Spiro T. Agnew the first Vice President in American history to resign in disgrace. It is the full story - until now, largely untold - of a reportorial manhunt through a legal and political maze."

Price:  $7.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:  $9.00

THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE and POWERS
1787 - 1957
History and Analysis of Practice and Opinion
By Edward S. Corwin

1958 (1stED 1940), Hardback, 519 pages. This is a big, uncirculated library book, with no stamps on it. The cover has a few small tears, but aside from that, it is in new condition.
From the back cover:

"Should one man have available the immense powers that are today the President's for the asking - indeed, for the taking?
How has the presidential role changed since it was defined in the Constitution?
How does the President fulfill his multiple duties as national and international, party and legislative leader?
Is it time for the present system of selection, tenure, and succession to be reformed - and how?
What of the President's relation to Congress?"

From the inside cover: "In this Fourth Revised Edition of his monumental work Professor Corwin has brought his book completely up to date by tracing the political developments from President Truman's last term in office through the present administration. In keeping with the candid and provocative discussion of current issues, there is a special enlarged section on presidential disability and the provision for succession."

Price:  $8.00
Shipp: $2.50.
Total: $10.50

3 OLD BOOKS ON COMMUNISM

All three of these former library books are in pretty good, but varying condition. Descriptions follow:

PEASANT WARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
By Eric R. Wolf
1969, Softcover, 328 pages, B/W Maps. This book has not seen a lot of wear considering it's age. A good number of people found it terribly interesting, it seems, as it does have a lot of pencil markings throughout.
The title says it all. The countries dealt with in this book are: Mexico, Russia, China, Viet Nam, Algeria and Cuba.

CHANGING PATTERNS IN SOUTH ASIA
By Ian Thomson
1962, Hardback, 166 pages. The book is a little faded and the contents page has a rip in it. Fine otherwise.
Some sample chapter titles: 1 Nationalism, 3 Idealism, 5 Communism, 6 Socialism, 7 Revolution, 12 Christianity in Asia.

THE NEW RUMANIA:
From People's Democracy to Socialist Republic
By Stephen Fischer-Galati
1967, Hardback, 126 pages. Dust jacket is faded, but fine otherwise.
From the inside flap: "As Volume 10 of the Studies in International Communism series, The New Rumania... [traces] the evolution of the "Rumanian course" from it's ideological birth in the early 1940's to it's practical application by Gheorghiu-Dej and his successor and protege, Nicolae Ceausescu, the author has characterized not only independant nationalism but Communist rule as well."

Price:  $7.00
Shipp: $2.50
Total:   $9.50

REAGAN AND THE WORLD
Imperial Policy in the New Cold War
By Jeff McMaha

1985, Softcover, 300 pages, cover price $10.00. This book is in pretty good shape except for one thing, the cover has seperated itself from the binding. The binding is still holding together very well though. A number of people must have really enjoyed this former library book as it has a lot of pencil markings in it.
I always think books like this are interesting to read 15 or 20 years after they come out. It has a lot of theories on how the Reagan administration's foreign policy will affect the future. Well, the future is here so get out your score cards. Some sample chapter titles: The Quest for Global Control; The Importance of Being Able to "Prevail" in a Nuclear War; Arms Control as an Excercise in Public Relations; Arms Sales as a Source of Leverage; The New Cold War and the Prospects for Peace.

Price:  $4.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:   $6.00

2 BOOKS ON ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS

ATOMIC HARVEST
Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal
By Michael D'Antonio
1993 First Edition, Hardback, 304 pages, cover price $22.50, B/W photographs. The library book is in very nice shape with no defects to speak of, aside from a light ammount of normal wear.
From the inside flap: "They said Hanford was safe. They lied... The people living downwind of Hanford would learn that through accidents, routine emissions, and deliberate experiments, they had been bombarded with massive ammounts of radiation. Instead of being a good neighbor, Hanford was actually the dirtiest atomic site in the western world. The "downwinders" were the most irradiated civillians outside of the former Soviet Union. And Handford is now the only official environmental "emergency" in the United States... The American government has allowed the tragedy and cover-up at Hanford to be repeated at other nuclear weapons facilities, among them: Rocky Flats, CO, Fernald, OH, and Savanah River, SC."

THE FIRECRACKER BOYS
By Dan O'Neill
1994, First Edition, Hardback, 388 pages, cover price $24.95, B/W photographs. This library book may be uncirculated as it's in even better condition than the first.
From the inside flap: "On July 14, 1958, 'Father of the H-Bomb' Edward Teller arrived in Alaska to unveil Project Chariot, a plan to carve a new harbor out of the Alaskan coast by detonating up to six thermonuclear bombs... Thus began one of the most bizzare and disturbing chapters in the history of the atomic bomb. Conceived by the Atomic Energy Commision (AEC) to test the cratering and radiation effects of a nuclear excavation, Chariot was to be a prototype for Project Plowshare, a program that imagined, among other endeavors, using nuclear explosions to create new Panama and Suez canals."

Price:  $8.00
Shipp: $2.50
Total: $10.50

THE DEATH LOBBY
HOW THE WEST ARMED IRAQ
By Kenneth R. Timmerman

1991 First Edition, Hardback, 443 pages, cover price $21.95. This library book is in great shape with just a small ammount of normal wear.
From the inside flap: "Months after the triumph of Operation Desert Storm, the questions remain: What is Iraq's military capability, and where did Saddam Hussein get the armaments to provoke the Persian Gulf war? What did he have and what does he have left? The Death Lobby is the first book to detail the Iraqi arms buildup, graphically placing the blame in the laps of the Western countries that supplied weapons to Saddam... Based on firsthand interviews conducted over the last six years with scores of arms merchants, Timmerman proves that Saddam Hussein could never have brought about the Persian Gulf war without the cooperation of Western governments."

Price:  $10.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:  $12.00

2 BOOKS ON ANTI-COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONS

TIME OF CHANGE
An Insider's View Of Russia's Transformation
By Roy Medvedev & Giulietto Chiesa
Translated from Italian by Michael Moore
1989 First American Edition, Hardback, cover price $24.95, 346 pages. This library book looks just about uncirculated, as in almost new.
From the inside flap: "Gorbachev's Perestroika was the official account of Russia's new hopes; Medvedev's Time of Change is the inside story of what's really happening... Here an insider - a man who knows the details no Western correspondent can begin to uncover - tells of the background of perestroika, the groups competing to control the course of change, and events right up to the time of publication."

THE PATRIOTS' REVOLUTION
How Eastern Europe Toppled Communism and Won It's Freedom
By Mark Frankland
1992, Hardback, 356 pages, cover price $26.50. This library book is almost as nice and new looking as the first.
From the inside flap: "In The Patriots' Revolution Mark Frankland, who reported on these dramatic events for the London Observer, describes how the once powerful communist system cumbled with little or no resistance in the face of demonstrators armed only with candles and slogans of protest. Drawing on more than thirty years' experience in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Mr. Frankland re-creates what communism meant for Eastern Europeans and thus reveals the reasons for its breathtakingly rapid dissapearance."

Price: $10.00
Shipp:  $3.00
Total: $13.00

SIBERIAN ODYSSEY
The story of a British girl in Siberia before the Revolution
By Doreen Stanford

1964, First USA Edition, Hardback, 158 pages. This book is in good condition, a little wear here and there but nothing big to speak of.
From the back cover: "a page of (as far as I know) unwritten history, so far as life in Siberia before the revolution is concerned... a first-hand account of the impace of the 1917 revolution on an isolated community in a tiny corner of vast Russia."

Price:  $5.00
Shipp: $2.00
TOtal:  $7.00

THE BATTLE FOR THE ARDENNES
By John Strawson

1972, Hardback, 212 pages, B/W photographs and maps, cover price $8.95. This library book is in good condition except the back cover has mostly seperated from the spine. All the pages are still intact and it is fully readable.
I've read this book and it's pretty interesting. From the back cover: "John Strawson's account of the campagn is a model of clarity. Not only does he describe what happened but he sets the battle in its historical context. He shows how it was characterized by mistakes and controversies, and challenges the theory that the Ardennes battle had far-reaching consequences on the line-up of the Red and Allied armies after the war."

Price:  $5.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:   $7.00

ALL STALIN'S MEN
Six WHo Carried Out The Bloody Policies

1984, Hardback, 184 pages, B/W photographs. This library book is in really good condition.
From the inside flap: "The six men portrayed in theis book - Malenkov, Molotov, Mikoyan, Suslov, Kaganovich, and Vorishilov - allow us a close look not simply at Stalin's inner circle, but at the whole Bolshevik period. Each began his career while Lenin was still alive, rose to power under Stalin, lived through and often administered the bloodiest deeds of the period, and remained active after Stalin's death."

Price:  $5.00
Shipp: $2.00
Total:   $7.00

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