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Published by Random House (NY) 9/27/2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 037583219XISBN 13: 9780375832192
Seller: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Murdocca, Sal (illustrator). Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #27: Thanksgiving on Thursday 0.29. Book.
Published by GP Putnam's Sons & Random House Publishing Group October 2005, New York, NY, 2005
ISBN 10: 0399153012ISBN 13: 9780399153013
Seller: BookMarx Bookstore, Steubenville, OH, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Collectible Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. 1st Edition / 1st Printing - No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Dust jacket is in very good condition, with a small dampstain on bottom edge. One small notable stain on edges of last 20 pages of text. Gently read.
Published by NY. November 2005. Doubleday / Random House, 2005
ISBN 10: 0385514492ISBN 13: 9780385514491
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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brown & tan hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). 403p. index. religion. theology. christianity. secret societies. ~ THE FIRST SERIOUS JOURNALISTIC INVESTIGATION OF THE HIGHLY SECRETIVE, CONTROVERSIAL ORGANIZATION OPUS DEI PROVIDES UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO THE WILD RUMORS SURROUNDING IT AND DISCLOSES ITS SIGNIFICANT INFLUENCE IN THE VATICAN AND ON THE POLITICS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. Opus Dei (literally "the work of God") is an international association of Catholics often labeled as conservative who seek personal Christian perfection and strive to implement Christian ideals in their jobs and in society as a whole. Founded in Spain in 1928, it now has 84,000 members (1,600 of whom are priests) in eighty countries. But far from running bingo nights at local parishes, Opus Dei has become a center of controversy and suspicion both within and outside the Church. It has been accused of promoting a right~wing political agenda and of cultlike practices, aggressive recruiting, brainwashing new recruits, and isolating members from their families. Its notoriety escalated with the publication of the runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code (Opus Dei plays an important and sinister role in the novel) and with the previous pope's much~debated canonization of its founder (often linked with Francisco Franco's fascist regime) and the discovery that convicted FBI spy Robert Hanssen was a member of Opus Dei. With the expert eye of a longtime trusted observer of the Vatican and the skill of an investigative reporter intent on uncovering closely guarded secrets, John Allen finally separates the myths from the facts in Opus Dei. Granted unlimited access to the prelate who heads the organization and to Opus Dei centers throughout the world, Allen draws on a wealth of interviews with current members, as well as with highly critical exmembers, to create an unprecedented portrait of the activities, practices, and intentions behind its veil of secrecy. Allen reveals the remarkable power that Opus Dei commands in shaping Vatican policy and presents a detailed look at the full extent of its network, which includes people in key positions in politics, banking, academia, and other influential arenas. He even describes the arcane rituals~including self~flagellation~performed to preserve and promote a spiritual tradition strange and unsettling to modern sensibilities. For years Opus Dei has been the subject of conspiracy theories and dark, uninformed speculation. Opus Dei sets the record straight.
Published by VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES, RANDOM HOUSE 2005,_ov, NY, 2005
ISBN 10: 0307275167ISBN 13: 9780307275165
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by AUERS, BERND photo (illustrator). MOVIE TIE IN EDITION. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid bright.; cover art photo shows Young woman in whiteface, red lips.silver sticker "Geisha Sweepstakes."Now a Major Motion Picture" ; Woman Cover Photo; 433pg pages; Part Historical Novel, Part Fairy Tale.Part Dickensian Romance. the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house.
Published by Random House Children's Books 2005-07-26, New York, NY, 2005
ISBN 10: 0375833080ISBN 13: 9780375833083
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Kest, Kristin (illustrator). Language: SPA|ENG.
Published by Random House Children's Books 2005-08-23, New York, N.Y., 2005
ISBN 10: 0736423621ISBN 13: 9780736423625
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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hardback. Condition: New. Dias, Ron (illustrator). Language: ENG.
Published by New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 2005, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2005
ISBN 10: 1400063051ISBN 13: 9781400063055
Seller: Samuel H. Rokusek, Bookseller, Pleasant Prairie, WI, U.S.A.
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Pictorial Wrapper. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper. Fine/No Jacket. First Edition. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). 8vo. Uncorrected Proof.
Published by Random House Children's Books 2005-12-27, New York, NY, 2005
ISBN 10: 0440421225ISBN 13: 9780440421221
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by Random House (NY) November 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0375508015ISBN 13: 9780375508011
Seller: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Prizewinning author Harr embarks on a spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as 'The Taking of Christ.' The fascinating details of the artist Caravaggio's strange, turbulent career and the astonishing beauty of his work come to life in these pages. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.
Published by Random House; (2005), NY, 2005
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Faint price erasure on front endpaper. Inscribed by the author on the title page and dated in 2005. Signed by Author.
Published by NY: Random House (2005)., 2005
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 192 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Published by Random House (NY) July 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1400063833ISBN 13: 9781400063833
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns - his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead - has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or 'scratcher.' Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada and New England - including, tellingly, a girls' school in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with older women - from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic life, to the girls of St. Hilda's, with whom he first appears on stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent to learn wrestling at a local gym. Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jack's hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, 'sleeping in the needles' and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders his protagonist's unusual rise through Hollywood with the same vivid detail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we can't get rid of. Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he grows older - and when his mother dies - he starts to doubt the portrait of his father's character she painted for him when he was a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in search of his father, from Edinburgh to Switzerland, towards a conclusion of great emotional force. A melancholy tale of deception, Until I Find You''is also a swaggering comic novel, a giant tapestry of life's hopes. It is a masterpiece to compare with John Irving's great novels, and restates the author's claim to be considered the most glorious, comic, moving novelist at work today. Suffused with overwhelming sadness and deception, this 11th novel by the bestselling author--a chronicle of the life of an actor--is also a robust and comic novel, certain to be compared to Irving's most ambitious and moving work. (Literary Fiction) Light shelf wear on the jacket. Spine slightly cocked.
Published by NY. 2005. Random House, 2005
ISBN 10: 1400062918ISBN 13: 9781400062911
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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blue hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. faint smudge on spine. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. looks new. like new. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xi+254p.+ colophon & author bio note. notes. bibliography. index. world history. history of arabia. america history. politics. conspiracy theory. middle east history. secret societies. covert operations. espionage. ~ In its final report, the 9/11 Commission called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia "a problematic ally in combating Islamic extremism." To Gerald Posner, the bestselling author of Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, this is a huge understatement. In his new book, Secrets of the Kingdom, Posner exposes the truth about U.S.~Saudi relations: how the Saudis used billions of petrodollars to influence the American power elite, inducing corporations and politicians to sometimes put access to oil and profits above America's own best interests and security. The result of an intensive two~year investigation, Secrets of the Kingdom penetrates the innermost layers of the shielded House of Saud and presents evidence of complicity and deceit at the highest levels~evidence that the 9/11 Commission failed to consider. Using previously undisclosed records, and obtaining information from still~secret intelligence files, Posner has unearthed many groundbreaking revelations about the ties that bind the Saudi and Bush governments, including the never~before~revealed fail~safe system the Saudis have created in the event of a national crisis in their country, a program that could send the West into a decades~long economic tailspin similar to the Great Depression. why the 9/11 Commission failed to tell the full story of the first flight of Saudis from the United States only two days after the terror attacks. how the Saudi government has turned a blind eye to the role some Saudi charities~including many controlled or supported by Kingdom officials~have played in bankrolling al~Qaeda and Islamic terror groups. how the Saudis furtively established a Wahhabi lobby to successfully influence American lawmakers on military sales to the Kingdom, and their covert efforts to counterbalance what they saw as a powerful pro~Israel lobby in the United States. the Saudi monarchy's courting and support of Islamic extremists in order to distract them from their demands for reforms in the royal family while creating the basis for terrorist cells against Western countries. the startling extent to which prominent Saudi businessmen are buying up America. new revelations about how the Saudi monarchy has squandered much of the country's wealth over decades through corruption, extravagance, and lavish personal excesses unrivaled since the Byzantine emperors. Secrets of the Kingdom is an explosive study that will have a profound impact on both U. S. policy and Americans' perception of their government and its dangerous dependence on a foreign power with whom it shares little to nothing in common values. Posner uncovers a disturbing picture of how two nations, despite their differing agendas, have become inextricably entwined, with potentially disastrous consequences for America.
Published by NY: Random House (2005), 2005
First Edition
First edition with a 1 present in the number line; green covered boards, hardcover; 118 pages with a red ribbon bookmark; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket.
First Edition with a 1 in the number line; pictorial boards; hardcover; 189 pages; black and white illustrations; The Five Ancestors Series Book 2; very good with no apparent flaws in a similar quality pictorial dust jacket.
Published by Random House (2005), New York, NY, 2005
ISBN 10: 0375507523ISBN 13: 9780375507526
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Boards w/DJ. Condition: VG/VG. Not Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. New York, NY: Random House. VG/VG. (2005). First Edition. Boards w/DJ. 8vo., XVI, 347 pp. .
Published by Random House (2005), New York, NY, 2005
ISBN 10: 1400064139ISBN 13: 9781400064137
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Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: VG/VG. Black & White Plates (illustrator). New York, NY: Random House. VG/VG. (2005). . Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 458 pp., shelfwear .
Published by PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC acc 38015600 (SEAFREIGHT) VIA MAGNUM 2005-04-07, New York, N.Y., 2005
ISBN 10: 045121482XISBN 13: 9780451214829
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by Random House Publishing Group 2005-07-29, New York, N.Y., 2005
ISBN 10: 044050838XISBN 13: 9780440508380
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by NY. 2005. Random House, 2005
ISBN 10: 1400062659ISBN 13: 9781400062652
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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black hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. erasure spot on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~third printing ( # 3 in # line). xxvii+433p. + author bio note & colophon. glossy b&w photo illustrations. notes. select bibliography. acknowledgments. permissions acknowledgments. index. biography. world history. literary biography. baku. bolshevik revolution. ottoman empire. hitler. hollywood. islam. jewish orientalism. lenin. mussolini. nazis. secret police. stalin. terrorism. white russians. world war i. zionism. ~ Lev Nussimbaum was a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a bestselling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil~boom city of Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan. He found refuge in Germany, where, writing under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution became celebrated throughout fascist Europe. His enduring masterpiece, Ali and Nino~a story of love across ethnic and religious boundaries, published on the eve of the Holocaust~is still in print today. But Lev's life grew wilder than his wildest stories. He married an international heiress who had no idea of his real identity~until she divorced him in a tabloid scandal. His closest friend in New York, George Sylvester Viereck, also a friend of Freud's and Einstein's, was arrested as the leading Nazi agent in the United States. Lev was invited to be Mussolini's official biographer~ until the Fascists uncovered his true origins. Under house arrest in the Amalfi cliff town of Positano, Lev wrote his last book~scrawled in tiny print in half a dozen notebooks never before read by anyone~helped by a mysterious half~German salon hostess, an Algerian weapons smuggler, and the poet Ezra Pound. Tom Reiss spent five years tracking down secret police records, love letters, diaries, and deathbed note~books. Beginning with a year~long investigation for The New Yorker magazine, he pursued Lev's story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal~and sometimes as heartbreaking~as his subject s life. Reiss's quest for the truth buffets him from one weird character to the next: from the last heir to the Ottoman throne to a rock opera~composing baroness in an Austrian castle to an aging starlet in a Hollywood bungalow full of cats and turtles. As he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum's deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds~of European pan~Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti~Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists~that have also been forgotten. The result is a thoroughly unexpected picture of the twentieth century~of the origins of our ideas about race and religious self~definition, and of the roots of modern fanaticism and terrorism. Written with grace and infused with wonder, The Orientalist is an astonishing book.
Published by NY. 2005. Random House, 1963
ISBN 10: 0307290263ISBN 13: 9780307290267
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. red hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing (#1 in # line) of this new 9 volume edition (originally published in 3 Volumes in 1958). full color endpapermaps. 327p.+ about the author. 19 additional maps. bibliographic note. index. american history. american civil war. military history. ~ Shelby Foote's THE CIVIL WAR is a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our history~a war which lasted four long, bitter years, an experience more profound and meaningful than any other the American people have lived through. Never before have the great battles and exciting personalities of the Civil War been so clearly, so dramatically~and so vividly presented. The word "narrative" is the key, not only to this extraordinary book's incandescence, but also to its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. The reader not only learns what was happening in the North and South, on the political, military, diplomatic, and home fronts, the reader lives through the events as if he or she were there. This is the way it was, in its entirety, as far as Shelby Foote could discover it during years of exhaustive research. In its depth of understanding, its pulsing narrative, and its truly remarkable portrayal of personality, THE CIVIL WAR: A Narrative is an authoritative achievement of monumental stature. ~ FREDERICKSBURG TO CHANCELLORSVILLE. This authoritative narrative is dominated by the almost continual confrontation of the great armies. The Army of the Potomac (now under the command of Burnside) attempts to take Richmond, resulting in the bloodbath at Fredericksburg: Then Joe Hooker tries again, only to be repulsed at Chancellorsville as Stonewall Jackson turns his flanks ~a bitter victory for the South, paid for by the death of Lee's foremost lieutenant.
Published by NY. 2005. Random House, 1963
ISBN 10: 030729028XISBN 13: 9780307290281
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. red hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing (#1 in # line) of this new 9 volume edition (originally published in 3 Volumes in 1958~ 1963). full color endpapermaps. 318p.+ about the author. 13 additional b&w maps. bibliographic note. index. american history. american civil war. military history. ~ Shelby Foote's THE CIVIL WAR is a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our history~a war which lasted four long, bitter years, an experience more profound and meaningful than any other the American people have lived through. Never before have the great battles and exciting personalities of the Civil War been so clearly, so dramatically~and so vividly presented. The word "narrative" is the key, not only to this extraordinary book's incandescence, but also to its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. The reader not only learns what was happening in the North and South, on the political, military, diplomatic, and home fronts, the reader lives through the events as if he or she were there. This is the way it was, in its entirety, as far as Shelby Foote could discover it during years of exhaustive research. In its depth of understanding, its pulsing narrative, and its truly remarkable portrayal of personality, THE CIVIL WAR: A Narrative is an authoritative achievement of monumental stature. ~TULLAHOMA TO MERIDIAN. The war escalates in ever~increasing devastation ~ the sudden glare of Chickamauga and the North's great day at Missionary Ridge, followed by the Florida fiasco and Sherman's meticulous destruction of Meridian, leaving that section of the South facing the aftermath even before the war was over. Against this backdrop of battle and a rising opposition on both sides to the crushing war, Lincoln and Davis try in their separate ways to hold their people together, Lincoln by letters and statements, climaxing in the Gettysburg Address, Davis in further personal appeals to his citizenship. But though different in their methods, each leader comes to the inescapable resolution that the war must go on.
Published by NY. 2005. Random House, 1974
ISBN 10: 030729031XISBN 13: 9780307290311
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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Maps (illustrator). red hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing (#1 in # line) of this new 9 volume edition (originally published in 3 Volumes in 1958~1963). full color enpapermaps. 345p.+ about the author. 6 additional maps. bibliographic note. index. american history. american civil war. military history. ~ Shelby Foote's THE CIVIL WAR is a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our history~a war which lasted four long, bitter years, an experience more profound and meaningful than any other the American people have lived through. Never before have the great battles and exciting personalities of the Civil War been so clearly, so dramatically~and so vividly presented. The word "narrative" is the key, not only to this extraordinary book's incandescence, but also to its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. The reader not only learns what was happening in the North and South, on the political, military, diplomatic, and home fronts, the reader lives through the events as if he or she were there. This is the way it was, in its entirety, as far as Shelby Foote could discover it during years of exhaustive research. In its depth of understanding, its pulsing narrative, and its truly remarkable portrayal of personality, THE CIVIL WAR: A Narrative is an authoritative achievement of monumental stature. FIVE FORKS TO APPOMATTOX ~ Lincoln's second inaugural sets the tone for the final months of the war, invoking "charity for all" on the Eve of Five Forks and the Grant/Lee race for Appomattox. Here is the dust and stench of war in its twilight, with occasional lurid flare~ups, mass desertions, and the queasiness that accompanies the risk of being the last man to die. Then, penultimately, Lee at Appomattox, the one really shining figure in this last act. Davis's flight south from fallen Richmond overlaps Lincoln's death from Booth's derringer, and his capture at Irwinville comes amid the surrender of the last Confederate armies, east and west of the Mississippi River. So ends a unique achievement~widely recognized as one of the finest histories ever written, a vast and brilliant narrative of the Civil War.
Published by NY. 2005. Random House, 1974
ISBN 10: 0307290301ISBN 13: 9780307290304
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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red hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first printing (#1 in # line) of this new 9 volume edition (originally published in 3 Volumes in 1958~1963). full color enpapermaps. 326p.+ about the author. 21 additional maps. bibliographic note. index. american history. american civil war. military history. ~ Shelby Foote's THE CIVIL WAR is a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our history~a war which lasted four long, bitter years, an experience more profound and meaningful than any other the American people have lived through. Never before have the great battles and exciting personalities of the Civil War been so clearly, so dramatically~and so vividly presented. The word "narrative" is the key, not only to this extraordinary book's incandescence, but also to its truth. The story is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. The reader not only learns what was happening in the North and South, on the political, military, diplomatic, and home fronts, the reader lives through the events as if he or she were there. This is the way it was, in its entirety, as far as Shelby Foote could discover it during years of exhaustive research. In its depth of understanding, its pulsing narrative, and its truly remarkable portrayal of personality, THE CIVIL WAR: A Narrative is an authoritative achievement of monumental stature. PETERSBURG TO SAVANNAH ~ With Grant and Lee deadlocked at Petersburg as this volume opens, Sherman takes Atlanta, assuring Lincoln's reelection, together with the certainty that the war will be fought (not negotiated) to the finish. These events are followed by Hood's bold northward strike through middle Tennessee while Sherman sets out on his march to the sea, to be opposed at its end by the ghost of the Army of Tennessee. Hood is wrecked by Thomas in front of Nashville ~the last big battle~ and Savannah falls to Sherman, who presents it as a Christmas gift to Lincoln and the end of the war is almost within reach.
Published by NY. 2005. Random House., 2005
ISBN 10: 1400061326ISBN 13: 9781400061327
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
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black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). xiii+421p. +author bio note & colophon. b&w map. authors note & acknowledgments. notes. glossary. index. world history. military history. american history. ~In this landmark book, Robert D. Kaplan, veteran correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and author of Balkan Ghosts, shows how American imperialism and the Global War on Terrorism are implemented on the ground, mission by mission, in the most exotic landscapes around the world. Given unprecedented access, Kaplan takes us from the jungles of the southern Philippines to the glacial dust bowls of Mongolia, from the forts of Afghanistan to the forests of South America~not to mention to Iraq~to show us Army Special Forces, marines, and other uniformed Americans carrying out the many facets of U.S. foreign policy: negotiating with tribal factions, storming terrorist redoubts, performing humanitarian missions, and training foreign soldiers. In Imperial Grunts, Kaplan provides an unforgettable insider's account not only of our current involvement in world affairs but also of where America, including the culture of its officers and enlisted men, is headed. This is the rare book that has the potential to change the way readers view the men and women of the military, war, and the global reach of American imperialism today. As Kaplan writes, the only way to understand America's military is "on foot, or in a Humvee, with the troops themselves, for even as elites in New York and Washington debated imperialism in grand, historical terms, individual marines, soldiers, airmen, and sailors~all the cultural repositories of America's unique experience with freedom~were interpreting policy on their own, on the ground, in dozens upon dozens of countries every week, oblivious to such far~away discussions . It was their stories I wanted to tell: from the ground up, at the point of contact. " Never before has America's overarching military strategy been parsed so incisively and evocatively. Kaplan introduces us to lone American servicemen whose presence in obscure countries is largely unknown, and concludes with a heart~stopping portrait of marines in the first battle in Fallujah. Extraordinary in its scope, beautifully written, Imperial Grunts, the first of two volumes, combines first~rate reporting with the sensitivity and insights of an acclaimed writer steeped in history, literature, and philosophy, to deliver a masterly account of America's global role in the twenty~first century. Imperial Grunts paints a vivid picture of how defense policy is implemented at the grassroots level. Kaplan travels throughout the world, wherever U.S. forces are located. This is not just a book about Iraq or Afghanistan. Rather than debate imperialism, Kaplan relies on his keen understanding of history, philosophy, and in~the~field reporting to show how imperialism actually works on the ground . Imperial Grunts escapes Washington and reveals what it's like to live with the grunts day to day.
Published by PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC acc 38015600 (SEAFREIGHT) VIA MAGNUM 2005-09-05, New York, N.Y., 2005
ISBN 10: 0399531564ISBN 13: 9780399531569
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
First Edition with a 1 in the number line; black boards; hardcover; 189 pages; signed by the author; back of the half title page is lightly soiled else a very good clean tight copy.
Published by NY: Random House, 2005, 2005
First Edition
1st edition, 1st impression; sm. 8vo; paper covered boards, hardcover; unpaginated; a very good, clean, tight copy in a very good dustjacket.
Published by PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC acc 38015600 (SEAFREIGHT) VIA MAGNUM 2005-10-27, New York, N.Y., 2005
ISBN 10: 0451215222ISBN 13: 9780451215222
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC acc 38015600 (SEAFREIGHT) VIA MAGNUM 2005-10-27, New York, N.Y., 2005
ISBN 10: 0399530894ISBN 13: 9780399530890
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
Book
paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.