John Dorschner (40 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. Toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear and some tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Used-Acceptable. : The Cuban Revolution of 1958; Cut in mylar.

Condition: New.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. 9 inches tall; 552 pages with several appendixes, Bibliography and Index. Interviews with more than two hundred people, including Fidel Castro, and a study of previously classified U.S. State Department documents provide the basis for a dramatic recreation of the Cuban revolution of 1958.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (First Edition) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Dust jacket has clear-taped tear on front cover side near bottom right flap edge area.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. blue full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. fading to rear cover bottom corner. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. tiny edge nicks, minor wear, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (nap). endpaper maps. 552p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. appendix. notes on sources. selected bibliography. sources. index. world history. american history. military history. history of cuba. ~ This dramatic eyewitness history of the Cuban Revolution of 1958 is a vivid, stirring re~creation of five weeks that shook the world. Ninety miles from Florida, Cuba was America's playground, a haven for gangsters, a pawn in our foreign policy. And then, on January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro toppled the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and changed both the face of Cuba and the political landscape of the Western Hemisphere. It was a revolution that would serve as a model for guerrilla actions throughout the 1960s; its leaders, Castro and Che Guevara, would become charismatic heroes to a generation; and its political repercussions would lead us to the brink of war. But what actually happened in December 1958? What was it like to be in Cuba during those historic days? After interviewing more than 200 people~including Fidel Castro~and examining previously classified U.S. State Department documents, John Dorschner and Roberto Fabricio have written the first comprehensive account of the Cuban Revolution. The Winds of December takes us from the rebel camps of Oriente to the glittering nightlife of Havana, as Castro's forces drive toward the capital in those dramatic last days when ''the hours seemed like minutes." Here are the rebel troops, often still teenagers, who would soon be camping out in the Presidential Palace; Batista, quietly planning an ignominious exit; General Cantillo, the only figure trusted by both sides and consequently doomed to be trusted by neither, feverishly seeking a solution that would avert a bloodbath; U.S. Ambassador Smith, who learns over a hand of bridge at the country club that Washington has sent a secret emissary to Batista; Batista's New Year's Eve guests, who are told to leave the country: after the party (and their subsequent race to the airport); Fidel Castro, who alone has a vision of a new Cuba to emerge from the fighting; and countless individual stories. This is popular history at its most exciting~a solid, exhaustively researched historical account, written with the drama and narrative drive of a great novel.…

HARD BACK GREEN. Condition: GOOD. A True Adventure Special. Pictorial boards: light wear. Excerpt, "HURRICANE! The Rage of Hurricane Andrew details in striking color the devastating impact of America's most destructive hurricane. Stunning photographs by professionals who witnessed the hurricane's fury and its aftermath capture the initial reactions of the storm's victims.: DATE PUBLISHED: 1993 EDITION: 48.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1980 Edition. Previous owner's name on FEP.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good, clean, tight condition. Text free of marks. Dust Jacket in Very Good condition with light edge wear. Professional book dealer since1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. ISBN 0698109937. Hardback. Very Good condition book, with slight dustsoiling and browning to edges of interior pages, slight fading to cover edges, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges, slight browning to jacket edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Price clipped on front jacket flap.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan hardcover in dust jacket, 1980, 1st edition, clean/tight, No marks, jacket (price intact) has light surface wear (no tears); Fine/Near Fine. We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Eye witness history of the 1958 Cuban Revolution.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Illus. 552pp. 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. N.Y: Coward, McCann, (1980). A very good copy.

1st edition. 8vo. 552pp. E.p. maps. Small ownership sticker to front pastedown. Origiinal cloth. D/w. with black spine lettered in red and white, rubbed and chipped to edges. ISBN 0698109937 US$9.

Hard Back. Condition: Book is Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket is Very Good. First British Edition. 552 pages including notex, index & sources. Some wear to spine-ends, upper edges & corners, with light creases, 3cm tear to top rear hinge (taped). Boards are a bit WARPED, light wear to spine-ends, some fading to top & bottom edges. Page-edges slightly darkened. Text is very clean & in nice condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Presumed First Edition, First Printing. 552, [6] pages. Endpaper maps.Illustrations. Notes on Sources. Selected Bibliography. Sources. Index. Some page soiling. DJ has wear, soiling, and creased flap. John Dorschner was a longtime reporter in Miami and was also a legend for his work at Tropic magazine, a post that offered him a front row seat to some of Miami's most wonderful and infamous moments. Along the way, he has written stories from Haiti and Cuba, worked as a substitute teacher so he could write about the school system from within (deciding in the end that the kids would "eat me alive") and scored a 5 ½ hour interview with Fidel Castro. He co-authored a Cuba history book, The Winds of December. Three of his Herald articles have appeared in college textbooks on writing. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Romania in 2001. Won two National Headliner Awards, a Green Eyeshade Award and a host of others. Roberto Fabricio started as a copy boy and obituary writer at The Miami Herald and went on to be a reporter, columnist and editorial writer in the English language Miami Herald. He co-authored a book, The Winds of December. He later joined The Sun-Sentinel as foreign editor and senior correspondent for ten years, covering the fall of communism in Central Europe, the Middle East and Israel, the return to democracy in Chile, the "Contra" war in Nicaragua and the conflict in the Balkans, among other stories.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Good / Bien. [S.L., New York ?]: Macmillan London Limeted, 1980.- 552 p.: Láminas fotográficas en negro; 4º (32,5 cm.); Tela Ed. con camisa. Book in english HISTORIA, POLÍTICA Y DERECHO POLÍTICO-INTERNACIONAL AMERICANOS DESDE LA INDEPENDENCIA.

Condition: very good, good. 24 cm, 552, illus.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition glossy color photographic softcover wraps. Includes Preliminary Page entitled We Shall Prevail by Dave Lawrence, Publisher and Chairman, The Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald; The Hurricane That Changed Everything byJohn Dorschner; Richard, Vickie Barocas; The Winds Approach; Dawn of Destruction; We Need Help; Hope Amid Chaos; A Deepening Crisis; A Long Haul; Hurricane Andrew's Grim Toll and Acknowledgments. Profusely illustrated with color photographs and Hurricane Map: Landfall August 24, 1992, 4:55 A.M. "In the early morning hours of August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into South Florida. This was The Big One that experts had been warning about - a monster storm hitting a large urban area." - excerpt from the rear outer cover. "Overnight the face of our community was transformed. So much was swept away by the fury and destruction that was Hurricane Andrew. But Hurricane Andrew could not - can not - destroy the spirit of our community . Amidst the anguish and the pain, against great odds, the people of South Florida (and especially Dade County and Greater Miami) have shown their courage and their determination to triumph over the greatest natural disaster to befall this nation. The Big One is a tribute to the people of this community - to those who have been hurt, and to those who have helped. Not infrequently they are the same people.We salute the people of our community. Together, we will emerge from this stonger and more together." - Dave Lawrence, Publisher and Chairman, The Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald, from the Preliminary Page entitled We Shall Prevail. Miami Herald (photogaphy); El Nuevo Herald (photograhy); Chapman, Tim (cover photograph) (illustrator). …

Condition: New.

super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering, 552pp, VG (minor foxing to ends of pages) in VG+ d/w.

Condition: good, very good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 552, illus., highlighting/underlining (mostly in chapter 55), minor wear to DJ edges & corners, pencil erasure residue on endpapers.

Condition: New.