Bahnsen, Brig. Gen. John C. "Doc", Jr.:American Warrior: A Combat Memoir of Vietnam
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Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press, 1994. Reprint Edition. Trade paperback. Good. xiii, [3], 435, [5] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Maps (in… More...
Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press, 1994. Reprint Edition. Trade paperback. Good. xiii, [3], 435, [5] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Maps (including fold-out). Chronology of Events. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Some wear and soiling to covers. Ink name and address inside front cover crossed out in ink, covers scuffed and edges worn. Reprinted by the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press. The official U.S. Army account of the war in the Gulf. This book reveals and examines details about the conduct of the war and includes accounts by Iraqi soldiers. The official U.S. Army account of the war in the Gulf. This book reveals and examines details about the conduct of the war and includes accounts by Iraqi soldiers. Robert Hinds "Bob" Scales Jr. (born August 5, 1944) is a retired United States Army major general and former commandant of the United States Army War College. He was awarded the Silver Star for his actions in Vietnam on June 14, 1969, when nearly a hundred North Vietnamese soldiers overran his base in a predawn assault. Despite explosions all around him, he rotated among his gun crews, firing at the enemy, helping his men, and radioing instructions to helicopter gunships. He was the Director of the Desert Storm Study Project. He now works as a military analyst, news commentator, and author. Certain Victory is a unique report of the Army's performance during Desert Shield and Desert Storm It was researched and written by a group o eight officers drawn from many different combat specialties and background. Most were veterans of the Gulf War. The instructions from the Army leadership were to uncover what soldiers terms 'ground truth.' Certain Victory is the first depiction of the war built exclusively on combat interviews and reports from units returning from the theater. The frankness and candor, as well as the color, derived from these sources have been carefully preserved. In order to reach the widest possible audience, the study group went to extraordinary lengths to declassify intelligence and after-action reports as well as operations orders and overhead photography. The focus of Certain Victory is the operational and tactical level of war. General Scales and his team wrote Certain Victory to provide both the public and the military a clear picture of the Army's role in the Gulf War. The breadth and speed of Desert Storm operations left many participants unaware of the larger context in which they acted. This book is for them. To capture their story, General Scales essentially interweaves three distinct themes, each of which stands apart. First, Certain Victory tells the story of the young men and women who, in the heat and blowing sand of Iraq and Kuwait, took the fight to the enemy and won a compelling victory. Second, that victory vindicates the tireless and often unheralded work of a generation of Army leaders who forged a new Army from the dispirited institution that emerged from Vietnam. Third, Certain Victory provides a window on the future as well as a chronicle of the past. The reader, reflecting on the overarching sinews that General Scales extracts from the story, will gain insight into how future American wars might be fought., U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press, 1994, 2.5, New York: Random House, 1992. 5th Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. Peter Arnett (Jacket Photos). xx, 412 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix. Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Edge and some page corner staining--no impact on text. Some DJ edgewear. Sticker with a quotation from General Schwarzkopf on front of DJ. Harold Gregory Moore Jr. (February 13, 1922 - February 10, 2017) was a United States Army lieutenant general and author. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the U.S. military's second-highest decoration for valor, and was the first of his West Point class (1945) to be promoted to brigadier general, major general, and lieutenant general. Moore is remembered as the lieutenant colonel in command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, at the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965, during the Vietnam War. The battle was detailed in the 1992 bestseller We Were Soldiers Once... and Young, co-authored by Moore and made into the film We Were Soldiers in 2002, which starred Mel Gibson as Moore; Moore was the "honorary colonel" of the regiment. Moore was awarded the Order of Saint Maurice by the National Infantry Association as well as the Distinguished Graduate Award by the West Point Association of Graduates. In June 2009, the 87-year-old Moore attended the formal opening of the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia. One of the featured exhibits of the museum is a life-size diorama of L.Z. X-Ray from the Battle of Ia Drang. Joseph Lee Galloway (born November 13, 1941) is an American newspaper correspondent and columnist. Since 2013, he has worked as a special consultant for the Vietnam War 50th anniversary Commemoration project run out of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and has also served as consultant to Ken Burns' production of a documentary history of the Vietnam War broadcast in the fall of 2017 by PBS. He is also the former Military Affairs consultant for the Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers and was a columnist with McClatchy Newspapers. During the Vietnam War, he often worked alongside the American troops he covered and was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 1998, for carrying a badly wounded man to safety while he was under very heavy enemy fire in 1965. Along with Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, Galloway co-authored a detailed account of those experiences in the best-selling 1992 book, We Were Soldiers Once... And Young. A sequel was released in 2008: We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam and Moore and Galloway gave an interview on the book at the Pritzker Military Library on September 17, 2008. Derived from a Kirkus review: During mid-November 1965, Moore led 450 officers and men from the US Army's 1st Cavalry Division into the Ia Drang Valley, a trackless waste near Vietnam's border with Cambodia that served as a Communist sanctuary and infiltration route into Vietnam's Central Highlands. Almost as soon as they arrived, American forces were engaged in a series of constant-contact clashes with two full regiments of NVA regulars in what came to be known as the Pleiku campaign. A considerable, if costly, triumph for US arms, these bloody engagements (covered for UPI by Galloway) were also the first in which the US made a substantive commitment of troops. Drawing on their own experiences, interviews with other participants, after-action reports, captured documents, and allied sources, the authors recall the four hellish clays and nights of combat in or around helicopter landing zones that pitted elements of the 7th Cavalry against a determined foe fighting on his home ground. Their harrowing account offers telling detail on the savage battles that raged in the ravines and hills below the Chu Pong massif. It pays heartfelt tribute as well to the brave men (on both sides) who fought and frequently died on the killing grounds. Moore and Galloway (now a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report) also touch, without dwelling, on the lessons that could have been learned from the valor and sacrifices of vanguard units in what quickly became an unconventional war of attrition without rules or front lines. An authoritative narrative whose band-of-brothers perspectives make it a genuinely affecting addition to the growing record of America's involvement in Vietnam., Random House, 1992, 2.5, Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1993. Reprint Edition. Wraps. Good. xiii, [3], 435, [5] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Maps (including fold-out). Chronology of Events. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Some wear and soiling to covers. Bookplate. The official U.S. Army account of the war in the Gulf. This book reveals and examines details about the conduct of the war and includes accounts by Iraqi soldiers. Robert Hinds "Bob" Scales Jr. (born August 5, 1944) is a retired United States Army major general and former commandant of the United States Army War College. He was awarded the Silver Star for his actions in Vietnam on June 14, 1969, when nearly a hundred North Vietnamese soldiers overran his base in a predawn assault. Despite explosions all around him, he rotated among his gun crews, firing at the enemy, helping his men, and radioing instructions to helicopter gunships. He was the Director of the Desert Storm Study Project. He now works as a military analyst, news commentator, and author. bookplate, some wear and soiling to covers. Certain Victory is a unique report of the Army's performance during Desert Shield and Desert Storm It was researched and written by a group o eight officers drawn from many different combat specialties and background. Most were veterans of the Gulf War. The instructions from the Army leadership were to uncover what soldiers terms 'ground truth.' Certain Victory is the first depiction of the war built exclusively on combat interviews and reports from units returning from the theater. The frankness and candor, as well as the color, derived from these sources have been carefully preserved. In order to reach the widest possible audience, the study group went to extraordinary lengths to declassify intelligence and after-action reports as well as operations orders and overhead photography. The focus of Certain Victory is the operational and tactical level of war. General Scales and his team wrote Certain Victory to provide both the public and the military a clear picture of the Army's role in the Gulf War. The breadth and speed of Desert Storm operations left many participants unaware of the larger context in which they acted. This book is for them. To capture their story, General Scales essentially interweaves three distinct themes, each of which stands apart. First, Certain Victory tells the story of the young men and women who, in the heat and blowing sand of Iraq and Kuwait, took the fight to the enemy and won a compelling victory. Second, that victory vindicates the tireless and often unheralded work of a generation of Army leaders who forged a new Army from the dispirited institution that emerged from Vietnam. Third, Certain Victory provides a window on the future as well as a chronicle of the past. The reader, reflecting on the overarching sinews that General Scales extracts from the story, will gain insight into how future American wars might be fought., U. S. Government Printing Office, 1993, 2.5, Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1994. Reprint Edition. Wraps. Good. xiii, [3], 435, [5] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Maps (including fold-out). Chronology of Events. Selected Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Some wear and soiling to covers. Bookplate. The official U.S. Army account of the war in the Gulf. This book reveals and examines details about the conduct of the war and includes accounts by Iraqi soldiers. Robert Hinds "Bob" Scales Jr. (born August 5, 1944) is a retired United States Army major general and former commandant of the United States Army War College. He was awarded the Silver Star for his actions in Vietnam on June 14, 1969, when nearly a hundred North Vietnamese soldiers overran his base in a predawn assault. Despite explosions all around him, he rotated among his gun crews, firing at the enemy, helping his men, and radioing instructions to helicopter gunships. He was the Director of the Desert Storm Study Project. He now works as a military analyst, news commentator, and author. bookplate, some wear and soiling to covers. Certain Victory is a unique report of the Army's performance during Desert Shield and Desert Storm It was researched and written by a group o eight officers drawn from many different combat specialties and background. Most were veterans of the Gulf War. The instructions from the Army leadership were to uncover what soldiers terms 'ground truth.' Certain Victory is the first depiction of the war built exclusively on combat interviews and reports from units returning from the theater. The frankness and candor, as well as the color, derived from these sources have been carefully preserved. In order to reach the widest possible audience, the study group went to extraordinary lengths to declassify intelligence and after-action reports as well as operations orders and overhead photography. The focus of Certain Victory is the operational and tactical level of war. General Scales and his team wrote Certain Victory to provide both the public and the military a clear picture of the Army's role in the Gulf War. The breadth and speed of Desert Storm operations left many participants unaware of the larger context in which they acted. This book is for them. To capture their story, General Scales essentially interweaves three distinct themes, each of which stands apart. First, Certain Victory tells the story of the young men and women who, in the heat and blowing sand of Iraq and Kuwait, took the fight to the enemy and won a compelling victory. Second, that victory vindicates the tireless and often unheralded work of a generation of Army leaders who forged a new Army from the dispirited institution that emerged from Vietnam. Third, Certain Victory provides a window on the future as well as a chronicle of the past. The reader, reflecting on the overarching sinews that General Scales extracts from the story, will gain insight into how future American wars might be fought., U.S. Army Command, 1994, 2.5, SIGNED "Norman Schwarzkopf" in black felt tip pen on first day issue American Revolution Bicentennial stamp. 3.63" x 6.5" H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (August 22, 1934 - December 27, 2012) was a United States Army general. While serving as Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Persian Gulf War. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Schwarzkopf grew up in the United States and later in Iran. He was accepted into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army in 1956. After a number of initial training programs, Schwarzkopf interrupted a stint as an academy teacher, and served in the Vietnam War first as an adviser to the South Vietnamese Army and later as a battalion commander. Schwarzkopf was highly decorated in Vietnam, being awarded three Silver Star Medals, two Purple Hearts, and the Legion of Merit. Rising through the ranks after the conflict, he later commanded the U.S. 24th Infantry Division and was one of the commanders of the Invasion of Grenada in 1983. Assuming command of United States Central Command in 1988, Schwarzkopf was called on to respond to the Invasion of Kuwait in 1990 by the forces of Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Initially tasked with defending Saudi Arabia from Iraqi aggression, Schwarzkopf's command eventually grew to an international force of over 750,000 troops. After diplomatic relations broke down, he planned and led Operation Desert Storm—an extended air campaign followed by a highly successful 100-hour ground offensive—which defeated the Iraqi Army and liberated Kuwait in early 1991. Schwarzkopf was presented with military honors. Schwarzkopf retired shortly after the end of the war and undertook a number of philanthropic ventures, only occasionally stepping into the political spotlight before his death from complications of pneumonia in late 2012. Known for being a hard-driving military commander with a strong temper, Schwarzkopf was nonetheless considered an exceptional leader by biographers and was noted for his abilities as a military diplomat and in dealing with the press. "As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'Duty, Honor, Country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for duty, honor, and their country." - N. Schwarzkopf., 0, NY: Columbia Artists Management, 1972. (CAD) There is a programme and a flyer. The programme is SIGNED by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf to the front panel, there is a date of 3rd March 1972 and "born in Posen" written in pen to the top edge of the front panel as well. There is a find fold crease to the programme otherwsie |Near Fine. The flyer is a 9 x6" signle sheet printed both side advertising the recital with a photo of Schwarzkopf to the front panel and press excerpts to the back panel. The programme is printed on pink paper 11 x 16" folded in half to make 4 pages. Progamme notes mostly with translations of the text of the leider. Local ads: Pfaff; Pazifische Kundschau/ Dies und Das; Edelweiss Credit Union. (1.0 JM ITF2 docket 20. Unbound. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Programme., Columbia Artists Management, 1972, 4, Content appears as new, unopened, unread & unblemished in fine blue boards displaying no significant surface/edge wear.He set his star by a simple motto: duty, honor, country. Only rarely does history grant a single individual the ability, personal charisma, moral force, and intelligence to command the respect, admiration, and affection of an entire nation. But such a man is General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the Allied Forces in the Gulf War. Now, in this refreshingly candid and typically outspoken autobiography, General Schwarzkopf reviews his remarkable life and career: the events, the adventures, and the emotions that molded the character and shaped the beliefs of this uniquely distinguished American leader. Shipping/Handling/Insurance/Tracking Included within the continental U.S. (Free Shipping). Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will advise. Written 10.21.21SK #5923-110121 Img.7289 11.01.2021, Linda Grey/Bantam Books, 5, New York: Citadel Press, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xx + 492 pp., map, b/w photos, glossary, index. Foreword by Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Bahnsen was one of the most decorated soldiers ever from the Vietnam war with a DSC, 5 Silver Stars, 3 DFCs, 4 Bronze Stars (w/Valor), the Purple Heart & numerous others. Signed on the t.p., "Fight Fiercely! Doc Bahnsen." Hard cover book & d/w both in near fine cond. Not price-clipped. Scarce signed., Citadel Press, 2007, 4<
