2003, ISBN: 9780747801269

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A Roebuck Book, Canberra, 1974. First Edition.Royal 8vo.pp.viii + 84. Illustrated mainly with black & white photographs. Original blue hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.Small discrete … More...

A Roebuck Book, Canberra, 1974. First Edition.Royal 8vo.pp.viii + 84. Illustrated mainly with black & white photographs. Original blue hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.Small discrete name on free front endpaper.[ The author James Porter]. This is the biography of a Northern Territory policeman Jack Stokes and his life in a lonely watering base on the northern coast of Arnhem Land., A Roebuck Book, Canberra, 1974, 0, Simon & Schuster, 2003. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Notation by previous owner inside front flyleaf. Usual library markings. DJ had been pasted to boards, now separated.. xvii, 572 p. Illustrations. Cast of Characters. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. In this Vietnam War-era history, journalist David Maraniss reports on two out-of-control events that provide a window into the American experience of those times. On October 17, 1967, a squad of American soldiers was ambushed while on routine patrol, resulting in the loss of over 50 lives. On the next day, in Madison, Wisconsin, a student demonstration against Dow Chemical, the manufacturer of napalm, ended in violence, injuring students and police. Maraniss crafts his portraits of the soldiers in the Black Lions rifle squad with care, especially their leader Clark Welch. He provides both a sense of the large scope of the conflict and a grunt's-eye view of jungle warfare and everyday soldier life. In his sections on the University of Wisconsin, he captures the feel of campus life, as he relates the futile effort by administrators and student leaders to script the events of the day in order to avoid trouble. Maraniss places the firefight and the demonstration in their historical context and reports on the investigations that followed both, and his writing is supported by his prodigious research into sources not available at the time, including the subsequently released Pentagon Papers and websites relating to Veterans' affairs. He weaves these two stories with events in Washington, D.C., where President Johnson, concerned about reelection, was listening to reports from his advisors on the progress of the war and monitoring demonstrations at home. Maraniss's choice of the year 1967 is a judicious one. Soon after, in Vietnam, the Tet Offensive killed many Americans, setting back the war effort; in America, opposition to the war moved from the campus to mainstream America. At the end of 1967, President Johnson made the stunning announcement that he would not run for reelection. Maraniss's book illustrates the sentiment expressed back then that there were, indeed, two fronts to the Vietnam War: the war at home and the war abroad. His understanding of what happens when th., Simon & Schuster, 2003, 2.5, Winnetka, Illinois:: Westmoor Trail, 1984. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name. No remainder mark. Signed by the author [NOT inscribed to anyone specifically] on a card affixed to the front pastedown endpaper: "With kindest regards, Tom Mulroy." Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and dozens of other photographs. Bound in the original two-tone green cloth. Autobiography of this Illinois lawyer and former president of the Chicago Crime Commission. Includes a chapter on the Bobby Franks murder trial illustrated with photos of Leopold and Leob with Clarence Darrow. Mulroy earned bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Chicago and meet Nathan Leopold while a student there. The book also includes accounts of Mulroy's associations with Mayor Richard J. Daley, the "Quiz Kids" in 1943, Bishop Fulton Sheen, Justice Tom C. Clark, Arnold Palmer, Adlai Stevenson, and much else of Chicago and Illinois historical interest. Mulroy became senior counsel for the law firm Hopkins & Sutter. In 1966, when racial violence flared in Chicago, he was named chairman of the Citizens' Committee to Study Police-Community Relations. Under his leadership, the Committee published a 300-page study known as the Mulroy Report. Mulroy also served as president of the Executives' Club of Chicago, chairman of the Evanston Hospital Corporation, and president of the Bar Association of the Seventh Federal Circuit. . Signed by the Author.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good+ condition./No Jacket, probably as issued.. 8vo. xviii, 435pp.., Westmoor Trail, 1984, 3, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Bullsbrook, Australia, 1985, 1st edition, Veritas Pub. Co., fine condition, bound in paper wraps, Henry A. Clark, Zimbabwe, World History, 1985, 5, Princes Risborough: Shire Publications, 1991. First. paperback. fine. Many photo Illus. 32pp. 8vo, pr. wrs. (Princes Risborough): Shire Publications, (1991). Fine<br/><br/> History of police uniforms and equipment of the British police.<br/><br/>, Shire Publications, 1991, 5<

1991, ISBN: 0747801266

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[EAN: 9780747801269], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 35.68], [PU: Shire Publications, Princes Risborough], POLICE UNIFORMS, Many photo Illus. 32pp. 8vo, pr. wrs. (Princes Risborough): Shi… More...

[EAN: 9780747801269], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 35.68], [PU: Shire Publications, Princes Risborough], POLICE UNIFORMS, Many photo Illus. 32pp. 8vo, pr. wrs. (Princes Risborough): Shire Publications, (1991). Fine History of police uniforms and equipment of the British police., Books<

1991, ISBN: 0747801266

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[EAN: 9780747801269], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Shire Publications, Princes Risborough. (1991).], POLICE. HISTORY. UNIFORMS., First edition in VG+ condition, pictorial stiff pap… More...

[EAN: 9780747801269], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Shire Publications, Princes Risborough. (1991).], POLICE. HISTORY. UNIFORMS., First edition in VG+ condition, pictorial stiff paper covers, octavo, illustrated, 32 pages. ISBN 0747801266., Books<

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