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  • DARING YOUNG MEN: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift: June 1948 - May 1949. by Reeves, Richard.
    Reeves, Richard.
    DARING YOUNG MEN: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift: June 1948 - May 1949.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a military operation that changed the world. On June 26, 1948, Harry S. Truman began recalling the airmen of World War II to active duty to try to save the people of the western sectors of Berlin. "Stalin had ordered a blockade of the city. . . He was gambling that he could drive out the small detachments of American, British, and French occupation troops, because their only option was to stay and watch Berliners starveor retaliate by starting World War III. . . . [Truman's] answer: 'We stay in Berlin. Period.' That was when the phones started ringing and local police began banging…

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    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a military operation that changed the world. On June 26, 1948, Harry S. Truman began recalling the airmen of World War II to active duty to try to save the people of the western sectors of Berlin. "Stalin had ordered a blockade of the city. . . He was gambling that he could drive out the small detachments of American, British, and French occupation troops, because their only option was to stay and watch Berliners starveor retaliate by starting World War III. . . . [Truman's] answer: 'We stay in Berlin. Period.' That was when the phones started ringing and local police began banging on doors to deliver telegrams to the vets. Drawing on service records and hundreds of interviews in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, Reeves tells the stories of these civilian airmen. . . [who] did the impossible, living in barns and muddy tents, flying over Soviet-occupied territory day and night." INSCRIBED on the left hand title page "To -- a daring young man." Map, illustrated with contemporary cartoons at the head of each chapter. Notes, bibliography, index. xvii, 316 pp. ISBN: 978-1416541196.

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    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 69614
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  • AN HONORABLE MAN. by Vidich, Paul.
    Vidich, Paul.
    AN HONORABLE MAN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Atria / Emily Bestler Books, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, named one of Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mysteries & Thrillers of Spring 2016. Set in Washington, DC in 1953, when the Cold War is heating up, McCarthyism is raging - and the CIA has a double agent in its midst. Joseph Kanon described this as "Cold War spy fiction in the grand tradition - neatly plotted betrayals in that shadow world where no one can be trusted and agents are haunted by their own moral compromises." Based on the life of James Speyer Kronthal. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 278 pp. ISBN: .

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.

    Book ID: 82048
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  • COUNTDOWN: The Sixties Trilogy, Book One. by Wiles, Deborah.
    Wiles, Deborah.
    COUNTDOWN: The Sixties Trilogy, Book One.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Scholastic, (2010) dj. Hardcover - Set in 1962, this is the first book in The Sixties Trilogy, a "documentary novel" which combines fiction- the story of a young girl during that time - with photographs of historical events and people. Includes a beginning bibliography for further reading. ISBN: 978-0545106054.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 71804
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  • DEEP LIE. by Woods, Stuart.
    Woods, Stuart.
    DEEP LIE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (1986.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel of suspense by the Edgar award winning author, based on a true incident of a Soviet submarine that ran aground in 1982. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp plus an author's note. ISBN: 0-393-022722.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 50471
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