Foreword E Meyer (7 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: vg. Norman Rockwell (illustrator). 94 pages; b/w & color illustrations; full page color plates; contents clean; 15" tall folio; light shelf wear to edges of cover. Paperback.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Ballantine Bks Ed/2nd Pr October1977. 303 pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slightly creased spine. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition / 1st Printing - VERY GOOD minus in a very good dust jacket. Has some marginalia (mostly checkmarks). xvi, 315 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. . . . . . . . Coleman's book, first published by St. Martin's Press in 1988, is a critical examination of the ?airmobile revolution,? arguing that while helicopters helped free infantry from the constraints of terrain, they also imposed heavy logistical and maintenance burdens and could not by themselves resolve the fundamental problems of fighting an unconventional war. He suggests that the Army, eager to secure resources and institutional change, oversold the helicopter as a solution, sometimes neglecting the continuing need for protected ground mobility and underestimating how an enemy fighting at close quarters could negate American technological advantages. As a result, the book serves both as a detailed campaign history and as a reflective study of how new technology reshapes doctrine, offering an important companion perspective to later works on the Ia Drang battles and early U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Meyer, Susan E. (illustrator). Good Condition. Ex-Library book with the usual stamps and labels. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 165pp. 21cm. Hard cover in dust jacket. Name and date on end paper. Very good clean copy.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Schiwetz, E. M. - Drawings (illustrator). First Edition. 194 Pages Indexed. Maroon cloth with gold lettering and a decoration on the spine. Beautiful as new book with interior text pages near flawless. Dust jacket has a small stain at the top. $4.50 flap price is not clipped. Signed on the half-title page Signature Only. This book is an autobiography. The author worked for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service during World War 2 studying the War Emergency Program for farm labor placement. Hohn had formulated a philosophy that protection of human resources, in this case migrant and local farm labor, was the surest method of increasing agricultural production. In other states there was a hostility that existed between farmers and the Spanish-speaking American or Mexican migratory families. Dutch Hohn transformed the relationship of these groups by educating the farmer to treat the worker like a human being instead of a commodity, and to give him fair treatment as to housing, living, and working conditions, and by educating the worker to the moral responsibility of giving a fair day's work for a fair day's wage. His was a creative and complex administrative job which mobilized all available public and private community organizations to meet such problems as health, child care, housing, and the construction of reception centers where migrant families could rest, wash, and sleep instead of being driven like animals from pillar to post for weeks on end. The program produced an enormous increase in food which the country needed as much as it needed armaments. It proved that what is sound humanly is also sound financially. Dutch would scramble over canal banks to visit the hideouts of the wetbacks, and make long journeys over the Texas plains to inspect the far-flung reception centers. Thus begun the life's work of Dutch. Contents in 16 Chapters: Hohns Galore, Yorktown Yokel, Girl-Shy, Poor Fish, Green Grows the Freshman, The One and Only Charley Moran, Primitive Football, One Ball and Two Strikes, Close Call with Avogadro, Top Man in a Class of One, A Ranch and a Bride, From County Agent to Insurance Agent, County Agent Again-Washington County, Migrant Labor in War Time, A Fanner Looks at the Farm Problem, and An Active Retirement. By Author - Signature Only.