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Iran, Irak, Naher
Osten/Iran,
Iraq/Middle East
Afghanistan, A Military History
from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban, Stephen
Tanner, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81233-9, 346 pages,
2002
For over 2500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan
has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has
witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilisations -
Greeks, Arabs, Mongols, and Tartars, and in more recent
times, Britain, Russia, and America.
Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark
Bowden, Atlantic Books London, ISBN 978-1-84354-496-8, 680
pages, 2007
In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini's followers adducted 66
American diplomats and citizens and held them in Theran for
444 days in what would become known as the Iranian Hostage
Crisis. It marked the birth of radical Islam and the
beginning of the West's conflict with the militant
Islam.
I'm a Soldier, Too; The Jessica Lynch
Story, Rick Bragg, Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 1-4000-4257-7,
208 pages, 2003
This is the story this country has hungered for, as told by
Lynch herself to Rick Bragg. In it she tells what really
happened in the hospital; what really happened in the
ambush; what really happened, from her perspective, on the
night of the rescue.
Pity the Nation - Lebanon at War,
Robert Fisk, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280130-9,
728 pages, 2001
Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this
remarkable book combines war reporting and political
analysis in an unprecedented way; it is an epic account of
the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally
witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over two
decades.
Squaddie, a Soldier's Story,
Steven McLaughlin, Mainstream Publishing, ISBN
1-84596-145-5, 318 pages, 2006
From the harsh realities of basic training to the post-war
chaos of Iraq and the knife-edge tension of Northern
Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army
recruitment brochures. It exposes the grim reality of
everyday soldiering for the 'grunts on the
ground'.
Strike Eagle, William L.
Smallwood, Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War, Brassey's Inc.,
ISBN 1-57488-122-1, 218 pages, 1997
The author served in the Air Force during the Korean War and
is an experienced pilot. An aviation book for non-aviators
and aviators alike. It is a good war story - a good flying
story - a great book.
The Assassins' Gate, America in
Iraq, George Packer, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-23043-1,
467 pages, 2006
George Packer's remarkable book is an account of how America
found itself in occupation of Iraq, using the country as a
laboratory for the dissemination of democracy in the Middle
East. The book is also an anatomy of chaos and failure, of
how utopian experiment went disastrously wrong.
The Great War for Civilisation,
The conquest of the Middle East, Robert Fisk, Harper
Perennial, ISBN 1-84115-008-8, 1368 pages, 2006
Vivid personal reporting and incisive, angry historical
analysis make Robert Fisk's passionate eyewitness account of
the events that have shaped the Middle East into an
unforgettable work. Thirty years at the heart of
world-shaking events have produced a masterpiece.
The Hidden War, A Russian
Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan,
Artyom Borovik, Grove Press, ISBN 978-0-8021-3775-3, 288
pages, 1990
Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one
of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With this book he
provided the world its first glimpse inside the Soviet
military machine, capturing the soldiers' terror,
helpnessless, and despair at waging war in a foreign land
against an unseen enemy for unclear purposes.
The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988,
Efraim Karsh, Osprey Essential Histories, ISBN
1-84176-371-3, 98 pages, 2002
The Iran-Iraq War was one of the longest, bloodiest and
costliest Third World armed conflict in the twentieth
century. Professor Karsh addresses the causes of the war:
unpacking the objectives of the two belligerents and
examining how the objectives were matched by by
strategy.
The Looming Tower, Al-Qaeda and
the road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright, Vintage Books,
ISBN 978-1-4000-3084-2, 541 pages, 2006
A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming
Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic
fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda and the intelligence
failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade
Center.
Warthog, Flying the A-10 in the Gulf
War, William L. Smallwood, Potomac Books, ISBN
1-57488-886-2, 240 pages, 1993
This book war researched during the summer of 1991, just
after all the A-10 pilots who flew in the Persian Gulf War
returned to their home bases: RAF Alconbury in East Anglia,
Grat Britain; Myrtle Beach Air Force Base in South Carolina;
England Air Force Base in Alexandria, Louisiana; New Orleans
Naval Air Station; and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in
Tucson, Arizona.
Weekend Warrior, Kevin J. Mervin,
Mainstream Publishing, ISBN 1-84018-974-6, 350 pages,
2005
A territorial soldier's war in Iraq. Kevin J. Mervin was one
of over 2,000 British Territorial Army soldiers called up to
fight in the Iraq War in February 2003. Based on day-to-day
diary kept throughout his tour of duty, the author's
personal account of the conflict illustrates what it was
like for a 'part-timer' to fight alongside the regular army
during operation Telic, the codename for UK military
movements in Iraq.
Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer,
Atlantic Books London, ISBN 978-1-84887-301-8, 380
pages, 2009
In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million
NFL contract to enlist in the United States Special
Operations Forces. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and felt
a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda
and the Taliban. Two years later, he would die on a desolate
hillside in south-eastern Afghanistan.
Schauplatz Irak, Hintergründe
eines Weltkonflikts, Peter Heine, Herder Spektrum, ISBN
3-451-05371-3, 160 Seiten, 2002
Der Irak, ein Land mit einer grossen kulturellen Tradition.
Das Regime Saddam Husseins-einst vom Westen
gehätschelt-heute ein Staat von Angst und Terror. Heine
erhellt die Hintergründe des aktuellen Konflikts, zeigt
die offensichtlichen und verdeckten Machtinteressen und
sagt, wie es weitergehen kann.
Verschlüsselt: Der Fall Hans
Bühler, Res Strehle, Werd Verlag, ISBN
3-85932-141-2, 196 Seiten, 1994
Die Geschichte des Gefangenen 01228/1 ist die kafkaeske
Geschichte einer doppelten Gefangenschaft. Es ist
zunächst die neunmonatige Inhaftierung des Zürcher
Verkaufsingenieurs Hans Bühler in einem iranischen
Militärgefängnis im Jahre 1992. Nach der
Rückkehr in die Schweiz folgt Bühlers Entlassung
durch die Chiffrier-Geräte-Firma Crypto AG und seine
zweite "Gefangenschaft" in der verzweifelten Suche nach den
Gründen für die Zerstörung seiner beruflichen
Existenz.
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Iran, Irak, Naher
Osten/Iran,
Iraq/Middle East
Bowden Mark,
Guests of the Ayatollah, Atlantic Books
London, ISBN 978-1-84354-496-8, 680 pages, 2007
In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini's followers adducted 66
American diplomats and citizens and held them in Theran for
444 days in what would become known as the Iranian Hostage
Crisis. It marked the birth of radical Islam and the
beginning of the West's conflict with the militant
Islam.
Borovik Artyom, The Hidden War, A
Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in
Afghanistan, Grove Press, ISBN 978-0-8021-3775-3, 288 pages,
1990
Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one
of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With this book he
provided the world its first glimpse inside the Soviet
military machine, capturing the soldiers' terror,
helpnessless, and despair at waging war in a foreign land
against an unseen enemy for unclear purposes.
Bragg Rick, I'm a Soldier, Too;
The Jessica Lynch Story, Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN
1-4000-4257-7, 208 pages, 2003
This is the story this country has hungered for, as told by
Lynch herself to Rick Bragg. In it she tells what really
happened in the hospital; what really happened in the
ambush; what really happened, from her perspective, on the
night of the rescue.
Fisk Robert, Pity the Nation -
Lebanon at War, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-280130-9,
728 pages, 2001
Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this
remarkable book combines war reporting and political
analysis in an unprecedented way; it is an epic account of
the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally
witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over two
decades.
Fisk Robert, The Great War for
Civilisation, The conquest of the Middle East, Robert Fisk,
Harper Perennial, ISBN 1-84115-008-8, 1368 pages, 2006
Vivid personal reporting and incisive, angry historical
analysis make Robert Fisk's passionate eyewitness account of
the events that have shaped the Middle East into an
unforgettable work. Thirty years at the heart of
world-shaking events have produced a masterpiece.
Heine Peter, Schauplatz Irak,
Hintergründe eines Weltkonflikts,, Herder Spektrum,
ISBN 3-451-05371-3, 160 Seiten, 2002
Der Irak, ein Land mit einer grossen kulturellen Tradition.
Das Regime Saddam Husseins-einst vom Westen
gehätschelt-heute ein Staat von Angst und Terror. Heine
erhellt die Hintergründe des aktuellen Konflikts, zeigt
die offensichtlichen und verdeckten Machtinteressen und
sagt, wie es weitergehen kann.
Karsh Efraim, The Iran-Iraq War
1980-1988, Osprey Essential Histories, ISBN 1-84176-371-3,
98 pages, 2002
The Iran-Iraq War was one of the longest, bloodiest and
costliest Third World armed conflict in the twentieth
century. Professor Karsh addresses the causes of the war:
unpacking the objectives of the two belligerents and
examining how the objectives were matched by by
strategy.
Krakauer Jon, Where Men Win Glory,
Atlantic Books London, ISBN 978-1-84887-301-8, 380
pages, 2009
In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million
NFL contract to enlist in the United States Special
Operations Forces. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and felt
a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda
and the Taliban. Two years later, he would die on a desolate
hillside in south-eastern Afghanistan.
McLaughlin Steven, Squaddie, a
Soldier's Story, Mainstream Publishing, ISBN 1-84596-145-5,
318 pages, 2006
From the harsh realities of basic training to the post-war
chaos of Iraq and the knife-edge tension of Northern
Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army
recruitment brochures. It exposes the grim reality of
everyday soldiering for the 'grunts on the
ground'.
Mervin Kevin J., Weekend Warrior,
Mainstream Publishing, ISBN 1-84018-974-6, 350 pages,
2005
A territorial soldier's war in Iraq. Kevin J. Mervin was one
of over 2,000 British Territorial Army soldiers called up to
fight in the Iraq War in February 2003. Based on day-to-day
diary kept throughout his tour of duty, the author's
personal account of the conflict illustrates what it was
like for a 'part-timer' to fight alongside the regular army
during operation Telic, the codename for UK military
movements in Iraq.
Packer George, The Assassins'
Gate, America in Iraq, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-23043-1,
467 pages, 2006
George Packer's remarkable book is an account of how America
found itself in occupation of Iraq, using the country as a
laboratory for the dissemination of democracy in the Middle
East. The book is also an anatomy of chaos and failure, of
how utopian experiment went disastrously wrong.
Smallwood William L., Strike
Eagle, Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War, Brassey's Inc.,
ISBN 1-57488-122-1, 218 pages, 1997
The author served in the Air Force during the Korean War and
is an experienced pilot. An aviation book for non-aviators
and aviators alike. It is a good war story - a good flying
story - a great book.
Smallwood William L., Warthog,
Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War, Potomac Books, ISBN
1-57488-886-2, 240 pages, 1993
This book war researched during the summer of 1991, just
after all the A-10 pilots who flew in the Persian Gulf War
returned to their home bases: RAF Alconbury in East Anglia,
Grat Britain; Myrtle Beach Air Force Base in South Carolina;
England Air Force Base in Alexandria, Louisiana; New Orleans
Naval Air Station; and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in
Tucson, Arizona.
Strehle Res, Verschlüsselt:
Der Fall Hans Bühler, Werd Verlag, ISBN 3-85932-141-2,
196 Seiten, 1994
Die Geschichte des Gefangenen 01228/1 ist die kafkaeske
Geschichte einer doppelten Gefangenschaft. Es ist
zunächst die neunmonatige Inhaftierung des Zürcher
Verkaufsingenieurs Hans Bühler in einem iranischen
Militärgefängnis im Jahre 1992. Nach der
Rückkehr in die Schweiz folgt Bühlers Entlassung
durch die Chiffrier-Geräte-Firma Crypto AG und seine
zweite "Gefangenschaft" in der verzweifelten Suche nach den
Gründen für die Zerstörung seiner beruflichen
Existenz.
Tanner Stephen, Afghanistan, A
Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the
Taliban, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81233-9, 346 pages,
2002
For over 2500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan
has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has
witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilisations -
Greeks, Arabs, Mongols, and Tartars, and in more recent
times, Britain, Russia, and America.
Wright Lawrence, The Looming
Tower, Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11, Vintage Books,
ISBN 978-1-4000-3084-2, 541 pages, 2006
A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming
Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic
fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda and the intelligence
failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade
Center.
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Vietnam/Vietnam
About Face, David H. Hackworth,
Touchstone, ISBN 0-671-69534-7, 836 pages, 1989
From age fifteen to forty David Hackworth devoted himself to
the U.S. Army and he fast became living legend. 1n 1971,
however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war
effort in Vietnam. Now, in About Face, he has written an
autobiography which many Vietnam veterans have called the
most important book of their generation.
A Bright Shining Lie, Neil
Sheehan, Vintage Books, ISBN 0-679-72414-1, 861 pages,
1989
When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John
Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an
enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a
charismatic soldier who put his life and career on teh line
in an attempt to convicee his superiors that the war should
be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had
embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that
the war had been won.
Another Vietnam, Tim Page,
National Geographic, ISBN 0-7922-6465-7, 240 pages, 2002
"During the war 'the other side' was faceless. But now, in
these vivid photographs, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
emerge as flesh and blood, and seeing them as such
contributes profoundly to our understanding of the tragic
conflict." Stanley Karnow
Chickenhawk, Robert Mason, Corgi
Books, ISBN 0-552-12419-2
As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young
man, he dreamed of flying helicopters-and the U.S. Army gave
him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between
August 1965 and July 1966, he flew more than 1,000 assault
missions. In chickenhawk, Robert Mason gives us a
devastating bird's eye view of that war and all its horror,
as he experiences the accelerating terror, the increasingly
desperate courage of a man acting out the role of a hero
long after he realises that the conduct of the war is
insane, says the New York Times, and we cannot stop
ourselves from identifying with it.
Chickenhawk, Robert Mason,
Penguin, ISBN 0-14-303571-1, 492 pages, 1984
New edition. Now with Photos and a new afterword.
Dereliction of Duty, Lyndon B.
Johnson, Robert McNamara, the joint chiefs of staff, and the
lies that led to Vietnam, H. R. McMaster, Harper Perennial,
ISBN 978-0-06-092908-4, 446 pages, 1998
"A book to boggle your mind with new revelations of
ineptness, duplicity, and arrogance amongst the senior-most
officials of the United States. McMaster pastes all the
puzzle pieces together to reveal a plot Shakespearean in its
proportions .... " Peter Arnett
Hell in a very small Place,
Bernard B. Fall, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81157-X, 514
pages, 2002
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, a strategic attack launched by
France against the Vietnamese in 1954 after eight long years
of war, marked a historicturning point. By the end of the
56-day siege, a determined Viet Minh guerilla force had
destroyed a large, tactical French colonial army in the
heart of Southeast Asia.
In Retrospect, the tragedy and
lessons of Vietnam, Robert McNamara, Vintage Books, ISBN
0-679-76749-5, 518 pages, 1996
Twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara answers the lingering
questions that surround this disastrous episode in American
history, in a ground-breaking book that is the definitive
insider's account of American policy making in
Vietnam.
Once Upon A Distand War, William
Prochnau, Vintage Books, ISBN 0-679-77265-0, 547 pages,
1995
The American reporters who came to Vietnam in 1961 expected
to write about an exotic little war in a country of tigers
and elephants. What they found instead was a debacle in the
making, in which American pilots flew missions illegally
while their Vietnamese counterparts strafed the presidential
palace. When they reported what they saw, they were
pilloried for it at home. but they ended up making history
simply by telling the truth.
Palace Cobra, Ed Rasimus, St.
Martin's Paperback, ISBN 978-0-312-94876-4, 338 pages,
2006
When F-105 pilot Ed Rasimus completed his 100 missions over
Vietnam, he returned stateside to a normal life: sitting at
a desk and teaching student pilots. Two years later, he
volunteered to go for a second tour of duty. Determined not
to die in a losing cause, and relentlessly searching for
that next adrenalin rush, Rasimus and the other F-4 Phantom
pilots continued the ferocious air war in the North -
dodging SAMs and gunning for MiGs - and routinely cheated
death.
Requiem, Horst Faas, Tim Page,
Jonathan Cape London, ISBN 0-224-05058-3, 336 pages,
1998
This book is dedicated to the 135 photographers of different
nations who are known to have died or to have disappeared
while covering the wars in Indochina, Vietnam, Cambodia and
Laos. Their lives are remembered through their work here
assembled.
Street Without Joy, the French
debacle in Indochina, Bernard B. Fall, Pen & Sword, ISBN
1-84415-318-5, 404 pages, 2005
Originally published in 1961, before the United States
escalated its ill-fated involvement in South Vietnam, this
superbly written and graphic account offered a clear and
chilling warning as to what American forces would face in
the jungles of Southeast Asia; a costly and protracted
revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile
enemy.
The Best and the Brightest, David
Halberstam, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-449-90870-4, 665 pages,
1992
"Deeply moving ... we cannot help but feel the compelling
power of this narrative ... Dramatic and tragic, a chain of
events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying
illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and
courage, blindness, pride and arrogance."
The Vietnam War, Donald M.
Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon, J. Michael Wenger, Bassey's,
ISBN 1-57488-075-6, 180 pages, 1997
More than 450 official and personal photographs reveal the
anguish, the loneliness, the courage, and the fears of the
three and a half million U.S. soldiers, Marines, airmen, and
seamen who served in America's longest war.
Thud Ridge - F-105 Missions over
Vietnam, Colonel Jack Broughton, Crécy
Publishing, ISBN 0-85979-116-5, 280 pages, 1969
Thud Ridge is the classic story of a special breed of
warrior, the fighterbomber pilot who flew the F-105
Thunderchief 'Thud' Fighter-Bomber over the hostile skies of
North Vietnam.
Vietnam, Larry Burrows, Jonathan
Cape, ISBN 0-224-06208-5, 244 pages, 2002
Larry Burrows photographed the conflict in vietnam from
1962, the earliest days of American involvement, until 1971,
when he died in a helicopter shot down on the Vietnam-Laos
border. His images, published in Life Magazine, brought the
war home, scorching the consciousness of the public and
inspiring much of the anti-war sentiment that convulsed
American society in the 1960s.
Vietnam Inc., Philip Jones
Griffiths, Phaidon, ISBN 0-7148-4603-1, more than 250
pictures, reprint 2005 of the 1971 classic
"Of all the hundreds of books about South Vietnam, this is
the truest, the most important, the most upsetting." New
Statesman, 1971
We were Soldiers once ... and
young, Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway, Corgi Books,
ISBN 0-552-15026-6, 410 pages, 2002
Vietnam, November 1965. 450 men are dropped by helicopter
into a small clearing in the la Drang Valley and immediately
surrounded by 2'000 North Vietnamese soldiers.
When Thunder rolled, Ed Rasimus,
Presidio Press, ISBN 978-0-89141-854-2, 286 pages, 2003
Between 1965 and 1968 , more than 330 F-105s were lost - the
highest loss rate in Southeast Asia - and many pilots were
killed, captured, or wounded because of the Air Force's
disastrous tactics.
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Vietnam/Vietnam
Broughton Jack, Colonel, Thud
Ridge - F-105 missions over Vietnam, Crécy
Publishing, ISBN 0-85979-116-5, 280 pages, 1969
Thud Ridge is the classic story of a special breed of
warrior, the fighterbomber pilot who flew the F-105
Thunderchief 'Thud' Fighter-Bomber over the hostile skies of
North Vietnam.
Burrows Larry, Vietnam, Jonathan
Cape, ISBN 0-224-06208-5, 244 pages, 2002
Larry Burrows photographed the conflict in vietnam from
1962, the earliest days of American involvement, until 1971,
when he died in a helicopter shot down on the Vietnam-Laos
border. His images, published in Life Magazine, brought the
war home, scorching the consciousness of the public and
inspiring much of the anti-war sentiment that convulsed
American society in the 1960s.
Faas Horst/Page Tim, Requiem,
Jonathan Cape London, ISBN 0-224-05058-3, 336 pages,
1998
This book is dedicated to the 135 photographers of different
nations who are known to have died or to have disappeared
while covering the wars in Indochina, Vietnam, Cambodia and
Laos. Their lives are remembered through their work here
assembled.
Fall Bernard B., Hell in a very
small Place, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81157-X, 514 pages,
2002
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, a strategic attack launched by
France against the Vietnamese in 1954 after eight long years
of war, marked a historicturning point. By the end of the
56-day siege, a determined Viet Minh guerilla force had
destroyed a large, tactical French colonial army in the
heart of Southeast Asia.
Fall Bernard B., Street Without
Joy, the French debacle in Indochina, Pen &
Sword, ISBN 1-84415-318-5, 404 pages, 2005
Originally published in 1961, before the United States
escalated its ill-fated involvement in South Vietnam, this
superbly written and graphic account offered a clear and
chilling warning as to what American forces would face in
the jungles of Southeast Asia; a costly and protracted
revolutionary war fought without fronts against a mobile
enemy.
Galloway Joseph L., Harold G.
Moore, We were Soldiers once ... and young, Corgi Books,
ISBN 0-552-15026-6, 410 pages, 2002
Vietnam, November 1965. 450 men are dropped by helicopter
into a small clearing in the la Drang Valley and immediately
surrounded by 2'000 North Vietnamese soldiers..
Goldstein Donald M., Dillon Katherine
V., Wenger J. Michael, The Vietnam War, Bassey's, ISBN
1-57488-075-6, 180 pages, 1997
More than 450 official and personal photographs reveal the
anguish, the loneliness, the courage, and the fears of the
three and a half million U.S. soldiers, Marines, airmen, and
seamen who served in America's longest war.
Griffiths Philip Jones, Vietnam
Inc., Phaidon, ISBN 0-7148-4603-1, more than 250 pictures,
reprint 2005 of the 1971 classic
"Of all the hundreds of books about South Vietnam, this is
the truest, the most important, the most upsetting." New
Statesman, 1971
Hackworth David H., About Face,
Touchstone, ISBN 0-671-69534-7, 836 pages, 1989
From age fifteen to forty David Hackworth devoted himself to
the U.S. Army and he fast became living legend. 1n 1971,
however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war
effort in Vietnam. Now, in About Face, he has written an
autobiography which many Vietnam veterans have called the
most important book of their generation.
Halberstam David, The Best and the
Brightest, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0-449-90870-4, 665 pages,
1992
"Deeply moving ... we cannot help but feel the compelling
power of this narrative ... Dramatic and tragic, a chain of
events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying
illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and
courage, blindness, pride and arrogance."
Mason Robert, Chickenhawk, Corgi
Books, ISBN 0-552-12419-2
As a child, Robert Mason dreamed of levitating. As a young
man, he dreamed of flying helicopters-and the U.S. Army gave
him his chance. They sent him to Vietnam where, between
August 1965 and July 1966, he flew more than 1,000 assault
missions. In chickenhawk, Robert Mason gives us a
devastating bird's eye view of that war and all its horror,
as he experiences the accelerating terror, the increasingly
desperate courage of a man acting out the role of a hero
long after he realises that the conduct of the war is
insane, says the New York Times, and we cannot stop
ourselves from identifying with it.
Mason Robert, Chickenhawk,
Penguin, ISBN 0-14-303571-1, 492 pages, 1984
New edition. Now with Photos and a new afterword.
McMaster H. R., Dereliction of
Duty, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara, the joint chiefs
of staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam, Harper
Perennial, ISBN 978-0-06-092908-4, 446 pages, 1998
"A book to boggle your mind with new revelations of
ineptness, duplicity, and arrogance amongst the senior-most
officials of the United States. McMaster pastes all the
puzzle pieces together to reveal a plot Shakespearean in its
proportions .... " Peter Arnett
McNamara Robert, In Retrospect,
the tragedy and lessons of Vietnam, Vintage Books, ISBN
0-679-76749-5, 518 pages, 1996
Twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara answers the lingering
questions that surround this disastrous episode in American
history, in a ground-breaking book that is the definitive
insider's account of American policy making in
Vietnam.
Moore Harold G., Joseph L.
Galloway, We were Soldiers once ... and young, Corgi Books,
ISBN 0-552-15026-6, 410 pages, 2002
Vietnam, November 1965. 450 men are dropped by helicopter
into a small clearing in the la Drang Valley and immediately
surrounded by 2'000 North Vietnamese soldiers.
Page Tim, Another Vietnam,
National Geographic, ISBN 0-7922-6465-7, 240 pages, 2002
"During the war 'the other side' was faceless. But now, in
these vivid photographs, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
emerge as flesh and blood, and seeing them as such
contributes profoundly to our understanding of the tragic
conflict." Stanley Karnow
Prochnau William, Once Upon A
Distand War, Vintage Books, ISBN 0-679-77265-0, 547 pages,
1995
The American reporters who came to Vietnam in 1961 expected
to write about an exotic little war in a country of tigers
and elephants. What they found instead was a debacle in the
making, in which American pilots flew missions illegally
while their Vietnamese counterparts strafed the presidential
palace. When they reported what they saw, they were
pilloried for it at home. but they ended up making history
simply by telling the truth.
Rasimus Ed, Palace Cobra, St.
Martin's Paperback, ISBN 978-0-312-94876-4, 338 pages,
2006
When F-105 pilot Ed Rasimus completed his 100 missions over
Vietnam, he returned stateside to a normal life: sitting at
a desk and teaching student pilots. Two years later, he
volunteered to go for a second tour of duty. Determined not
to die in a losing cause, and relentlessly searching for
that next adrenalin rush, Rasimus and the other F-4 Phantom
pilots continued the ferocious air war in the North -
dodging SAMs and gunning for MiGs - and routinely cheated
death.
Rasimus Ed, When Thunder rolled,
Presidio Press, ISBN 978-0-89141-854-2, 286 pages, 2003
Between 1965 and 1968 , more than 330 F-105s were lost - the
highest loss rate in Southeast Asia - and many pilots were
killed, captured, or wounded because of the Air Force's
disastrous tactics.
Sheehan Neil, A Bright Shining
Lie, Vintage Books, ISBN 0-679-72414-1, 861 pages,
1989
When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John
Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an
enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a
charismatic soldier who put his life and career on teh line
in an attempt to convicee his superiors that the war should
be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had
embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that
the war had been won.
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Grossbritannien,
Irland/Great
Britain, Ireland
A History of Britain, Volume 1, At
the Edge of the World? Simon Schama, BBC Worldwide, ISBN
0-563-38497-2, 400 pages, 2000
Change-sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes chocking and
violent-is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal
and grippingly written history, especially the changes that
wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties. At
the heart of his history lie questions of compelling
importance for Britains's futures well as its past: What
makes or breaks a nation?
A History of Britain, Volume 2,
The British Wars, Simon Schama, BBC Worldwide, ISBN
0-563-53747-7, 542 pages, 2001
The story is brought vividly, sometimes disturbingly, to
life by Schama's evocative narrative, filled with ordinary
and extraordinary people. Here are the great and
gifted-Oliver Cromwell and Christopher Wren. But here, too,
are the less known, though no less extraordinary, such as
Olaudah Equinano, an African enslaved from childhood, who
learnt to write, and wrote an unforgettable tale.
A History of Britain, Volume 3,
The Fate of Empire 1776-2000, Simon Schama, BBC Worldwide,
ISBN 0-563-53457-5, 576 pages, 2002
The story opens on the eve of a bloody revolution, but not a
British one. The French revolution never quite crossed the
Channel, though its spirit of fiery defiance and Romantic
idealism did, sparking off a round of radical revolts and
reforms that gathered momentum over the coming century-from
the Irish Rebellion to the Chartist Petition.
Alan Turing the Enigma, Andrew
Hodges, Vintage, ISBN 0-09-911641-3, 568 pages,
1983
Andrew Hodges's biography of Alan Turing, the brilliant
Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the
German Enigma code and indeed was the father of the modern
computer, was regarded as "the paperback buy of the season"
when it was first published. It is now reissued in Vintage
with a new preface.
A Story of Dublin, John McCormack,
Mentor Books, ISBN 1-84210-072-6, 293 pages, 2000
The people and events that shaped a city is an historical
journey from the revels of Donnybrook Fair to the
revelations of tribunals, via the Black Death and the
Glimmer Man.
Churchill, Roy Jenkins, Pan Books,
ISBN 0-330-48805-8, 1001 pages, 2001
The most celebrated Prime Minister of the twentieth century
and arguably the most renowned British Minister ever,
Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history. But, though
he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost
sixty years, without World War II he might have been
remembered as nothing more than a minor player in the dramas
of British government.
Codebreakers, F. H. Hinsley and
Alan Stripp, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-285304-X
With many colourful anecdotes and vivid descriptions, this
is the first authentic account of daily life at Government
Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most
successful intelligence agency in history. Described by
Churchill as the 'secret weapon' that 'won the war', the men
and women of Bletchley Park here combine to write their
story in full.
Colossus 1943-1996, Tony
Sale, M&M Baldwin, ISBN 0-947712-36-4, 18 pages,
2000
This is a slightly expanded text of the short talk I have
presented since 1996 at open weekends in Bletchley Park in
the Colossus viewing room. Tony Sale, October
1998
Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley
Park's Codebreaking Computers, B. Jack Copeland, Oxford
University Press, ISBN 0-19-284055-X, 462 pages, 2006
This is the story of Colossus, not only the world's first
large-scale electronic digital computer, but also a machine
that changed the course of World War II and saved an
incalculable number of lives. Housed at Bletchley Park, this
remarkable machine was created to launch a fast-paced
code-cracking assault on high-level Nazi
communications.
Enigma: How the Poles broke the Nazi
Code, Wladyslaw Kozaczuk and Jerzy Strasak, Hippocrene
Books, ISBN 0-7818-0941-X, 165 pages, 2004
In 1933 three Polish mathematicians led by Marian Rejewski
succeede in breaking the German Enigma machine cipher, which
the Germans considered unbreakable; a belief they firmly
held throughout World War II.
Provos, The IRA and Sinn Fein,
Peter Taylor, Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-3392-X, 1997
Never befor has an outsider had such access to record the
remarkable history of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein. The
íProvosí - from their dramatic beginnings to
the critical juncture they have reached today.
Seizing the Enigma, David Kahn,
Arrow, ISBN 0-09-978411-4, 1991
The Battle of the Atlantic, one of the most desperate and
savage campaigns of the Second World War, raged for more
than three years. But it was fought not only at sea. Based
at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, a band of eccentric
geniuses waged their own battle of wits to break the
ever-changing U-boat codes. Under the neurotic leadership of
Alan turing, their mission was to read the U-boat signals
and unravel the German cipher device, Enigma.
The Birmingham Gun Trade, David
Williams, Tempus Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7524-3237-0, 192
pages, 2004
This fascinating volume explores the relationships between
the technology and history of gunmaking. Covering the period
1720 to 1950, it sees the mechanical engineering technology
of the 'lock, stock and barrel' firearm change
significantly.
The Essential Turing, Jack B.
Copeland, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-825080-0, 612
pages, 2004
Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II
code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential
thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of
his tragically short life included the universal Turing
Machine, the electro-mechanical 'bombes' used at Bletchley
Park to decipher the Enigma code, his ground-breaking design
for an electronic stored-programm computer, and work on
artificial intelligence and artificial life so revolutionary
that he can claim to be the founding father of these
disciplines.
The Hut Six Story, Welchman
Gordon, M&M Baldwin, ISBN 0-947712-34-8, 252 pages,
2000
Gordon Welchman worked at Bletchley Park, on the most
important British de-ciphering operations of the war, from
1939 to 1945. Here, unsuspected by the Germans, the famous
Enigma codes were broken, almost continuously throughout the
war. Welchman was a leading figure at Bletchley Park; his
brilliant mathematical mind, and imaginative attack on
apparently insuperable problems, were of inestimable value
in shaping the course of the war and hastening
victory.
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Grossbrittanien,
Irland/Great
Britain, Ireland
Copeland B. Jack, Colossus: The
secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers, Oxford
University Press, ISBN 0-19-284055-X, 462 pages, 2006
This is the story of Colossus, not only the world's first
large-scale electronic digital computer, but also a machine
that changed the course of World War II and saved an
incalculable number of lives. Housed at Bletchley Park, this
remarkable machine was created to launch a fast-paced
code-cracking assault on high-level Nazi
communications.
Copeland B. Jack, The Essential
Turing, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-825080-0, 612
pages, 2004
Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and World War II
code-breaker, was one of the most important and influential
thinkers of the twentieth century. The astonishing output of
his tragically short life included the universal Turing
Machine, the electro-mechanical 'bombes' used at Bletchley
Park to decipher the Enigma code, his ground-breaking design
for an electronic stored-programm computer, and work on
artificial intelligence and artificial life so revolutionary
that he can claim to be the founding father of these
disciplines.
Hinsley F. H./Stripp Alan,
Codebreakers, Oxford University Press, ISBN
0-19-285304-X
With many colourful anecdotes and vivid descriptions, this
is the first authentic account of daily life at Government
Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most
successful intelligence agency in history. Described by
Churchill as the 'secret weapon' that 'won the war', the men
and women of Bletchley Park here combine to write their
story in full.
Hodges Andrew, Alan Turing
the Enigma, Vintage, ISBN 0-09-911641-3, 568 pages, 1983
Andrew Hodges's biography of Alan Turing, the brilliant
Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the
German Enigma code and indeed was the father of the modern
computer, was regarded as "the paperback buy of the season"
when it was first published. It is now reissued in Vintage
with a new preface.
Jenkins Roy, Churchill, Pan Books,
ISBN 0-330-48805-8, 1001 pages, 2001
The most celebrated Prime Minister of the twentieth century
and arguably the most renowned British Minister ever,
Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history. But, though
he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost
sixty years, without World War II he might have been
remembered as nothing more than a minor player in the dramas
of British government.
Kahn David, Seizing the Enigma,
Arrow, ISBN 0-09-978411-4, 1991
The Battle of the Atlantic, one of the most desperate and
savage campaigns of the Second World War, raged for more
than three years. But it was fought not only at sea. Based
at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, a band of eccentric
geniuses waged their own battle of wits to break the
ever-changing U-boat codes. Under the neurotic leadership of
Alan turing, their mission was to read the U-boat signals
and unravel the German cipher device, Enigma.
Kozaczuk Wladyslaw and Strasak
Jerzy, Enigma: How the Poles broke the Nazi Code,
Hippocrene Books, ISBN 0-7818-0941-X, 165 pages, 2004
In 1933 three Polish mathematicians led by Marian Rejewski
succeede in breaking the German Enigma machine cipher, which
the Germans considered unbreakable; a belief they firmly
held throughout World War II.
McCormack John, A Story of Dublin,
Mentor Books, ISBN 1-84210-072-6, 293 pages, 2000
The people and events that shaped a city is an historical
journey from the revels of Donnybrook Fair to the
revelations of tribunals, via the Black Death and the
Glimmer Man.
Sale Tony, Colossus 1943-1996,
M&M Baldwin, ISBN 0-947712-36-4, 18 pages, 2000
This is a slightly expanded text of the short talk I have
presented since 1996 at open weekends in Bletchley Park in
the Colossus viewing room. Tony Sale, October
1998
Schama Simon, A History of
Britain, Volume 1, At the Edge of the World? Simon Schama,
BBC Worldwide, ISBN 0-563-38497-2, 400 pages, 2000
Change-sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes chocking and
violent-is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal
and grippingly written history, especially the changes that
wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties. At
the heart of his history lie questions of compelling
importance for Britains's futures well as its past: What
makes or breaks a nation?
Schama Simon, A History of
Britain, Volume 2, The British Wars, BBC Worldwide, ISBN
0-563-53747-7, 542 pages, 2001
The story is brought vividly, sometimes disturbingly, to
life by Schama's evocative narrative, filled with ordinary
and extraordinary people. Here are the great and
gifted-Oliver Cromwell and Christopher Wren. But here, too,
are the less known, though no less extraordinary, such as
Olaudah Equinano, an African enslaved from childhood, who
learnt to write, and wrote an unforgettable tale.
Schama Simon, A History of
Britain, Volume 3, The Fate of Empire 1776-2000, BBC
Worldwide, ISBN 0-563-53457-5, 576 pages, 2002
The story opens on the eve of a bloody revolution, but not a
British one. The French revolution never quite crossed the
Channel, though its spirit of fiery defiance and Romantic
idealism did, sparking off a round of radical revolts and
reforms that gathered momentum over the coming century-from
the Irish Rebellion to the Chartist Petition.
Taylor Peter, Provos - The
IRA and Sinn Fein, Peter Taylor, Bloomsbury, ISBN
0-7475-3392-X, 1997
Never befor has an outsider had such access to record the
remarkable history of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein. The
íProvosí - from their dramatic beginnings to
the critical juncture they have reached today.
Welchman Gordon, The Hut Six
Story, M&M Baldwin, ISBN 0-947712-34-8, 252 pages,
2000
Gordon Welchman worked at Bletchley Park, on the most
important British de-ciphering operations of the war, from
1939 to 1945. Here, unsuspected by the Germans, the famous
Enigma codes were broken, almost continuously throughout the
war. Welchman was a leading figure at Bletchley Park; his
brilliant mathematical mind, and imaginative attack on
apparently insuperable problems, were of inestimable value
in shaping the course of the war and hastening
victory.
Williams David, The Birmingham Gun
Trade, Tempus Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0-7524-3237-0, 192
pages, 2004
This fascinating volume explores the relationships between
the technology and history of gunmaking. Covering the period
1720 to 1950, it sees the mechanical engineering technology
of the 'lock, stock and barrel' firearm change
significantly.
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Afrika/Africa
Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden,
Corgi Books, ISBN 978-0-552-99965-6, 570 pages, 2000
Authoritative, gripping and insightful, Black Hawk Down is a
heart-stopping, minute-by-minute account of modern war and
is destined to become a classic of war reporting.
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz,
Michela Wrong, Fourth Estate, ISBN 1-84115-421-0, 310 pages,
2000
Mr Kurtz, the colonial white master, brought evil to the
remote upper reaches of the Congo River. A century after
Conrad's Heart of Darkness was first published, Michaela
Wrong revisits the Congo as the era of Motubu Sese Seko
collapses into absurdity, anarchy and corruption.
I Didn't Do It For You, Michela
Wrong, Harper Perennial, ISBN 978-0-00-715095-3, 402 pages,
2005
A story of betrayal, belligerence and bloodshed, I Didn't Do
It For You is the portrait of a country torn by war and
buffeted by the capricious manoeuverings of foreign powers,
which remains defiant throughout. It is a story that reveals
the colonial and superpower legacy of a
continent.
It's Our Turn To Eat, Michela
Wrong, Fourth Estate, ISBN 978-0-00-724196-5, 340 pages,
2009
When Michaela Wrong's Kenyan friend John githongo one cold
February morning on the doorstep of her London flat,
carrying a small mountain of luggage and four trilling
mobile phones he seemed determined to ignore, it was clear
something had gone awry in a country regarded until then as
one of Africa's few success stories.
The Shadow of the Sun, Ryszard
Kapuscinski, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-02962-4, 325 pages, 2001
This book has been hailed as the greatest modern work on
Africa and as a dazzling literary masterpiece.
The State of Africa, A History of
Fifty Years of Independence, Martin Meredith, Free Press,
ISBN 978-0-7432-3222-7, 752 pages, 2006
The fortunes of Africa have changed dramatically in the
fifty years since the indepence era began. As Europe's
colonial powers withdrew, dozens of new states were launched
amid much jubilation and to the world's applause. The
circumstances seemed auspicious. Independence came in the
midst of an economic boom.
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Afrika/Africa
Bowden Mark,
Black Hawk Down, Corgi Books, ISBN
978-0-552-99965-6, 570 pages, 2000
Authoritative, gripping and insightful, Black Hawk Down is a
heart-stopping, minute-by-minute account of modern war and
is destined to become a classic of war reporting.
Kapuscinski Ryszard, The Shadow of
the Sun, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-02962-4, 325 pages, 2001
This book has been hailed as the greatest modern work on
Africa and as a dazzling literary masterpiece.
Meredith Martin, The State of
Africa, A History of Fifty Years of Independence, Free
Press, ISBN 978-0-7432-3222-7, 752 pages, 2006
The fortunes of Africa have changed dramatically in the
fifty years since the indepence era began. As Europe's
colonial powers withdrew, dozens of new states were launched
amid much jubilation and to the world's applause. The
circumstances seemed auspicious. Independence came in the
midst of an economic boom.
Wrong Michela, In the Footsteps of
Mr Kurtz, Fourth Estate, ISBN 1-84115-421-0, 310 pages,
2000
Mr Kurtz, the colonial white master, brought evil to the
remote upper reaches of the Congo River. A century after
Conrad's Heart of Darkness was first published, Michaela
Wrong revisits the Congo as the era of Motubu Sese Seko
collapses into absurdity, anarchy and corruption.
Wrong Michela, I Didn't Do It For
You, Harper Perennial, ISBN 978-0-00-715095-3, 402 pages,
2005
A story of betrayal, belligerence and bloodshed, I Didn't Do
It For You is the portrait of a country torn by war and
buffeted by the capricious manoeuverings of foreign powers,
which remains defiant throughout. It is a story that reveals
the colonial and superpower legacy of a
continent.
Wrong Michela, It's Our Turn To
Eat, Fourth Estate, ISBN 978-0-00-724196-5, 340
pages, 2009
When Michaela Wrong's Kenyan friend John githongo one cold
February morning on the doorstep of her London flat,
carrying a small mountain of luggage and four trilling
mobile phones he seemed determined to ignore, it was clear
something had gone awry in a country regarded until then as
one of Africa's few success stories.
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Verschiedene/Miscellanea
AK-47 The Weapon that changed the Face
of War, Larry Kahaner, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-72641-9, 258
pages, 2007
The world's most popular and lethal weapon goes by many
names - "The African Credit Card," the "$10 Weapon of Mass
Destruction" - and you see it every day in movies, on TV, in
magazines and newspaper. You see it in the hands of
legitimate armies but more often brandished by insurgents,
terrorists, and even child soldiers. AK-47 tells the story
of this most vicious and effective weapon, and how those who
wield it have changed the world.
Algeria, 1830-2000, a short
history, Bejamin Stora, Cornell University Press, ISBN
0-8014-8916-4, 283 pages, 2001
This book contains a wealth of reliable and useful
historical information, including detailed treatments of the
country's politics, economics, society, and foreign
relations.
A People's Tragedy, The Russian
Revolution 1891 - 1924, Orlando Figes, Penguin, ISBN
978-0-14-024364-2, 923 pages, 1997
Vast in scope, eshaustive in original research, written with
passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy. This book
presents the first comprehensive history of the Russian
Revolution in a single volume.
A Russian Journal, John Steinbeck,
Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-14-118633-X, 212 pages, 2000
A classic work of reportage from John Steinbeck and famed
war photojournalist Robert Capa.
Beherrschtes Entsetzen, Das Leben
in der Ukraine zehn Jahre nach Tschernobyl, Susan Boos,
Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 3-85869-162-3, 252 Seiten, 1996
Nach dem Schrecken kommen die Beschwichtigungen. Auch in der
Ukraine würden viele gern verdrängen. Warum das
nicht geht, erzählt zum Beispiel der
Afghanistan-Veteran Juri Kolatschuk, der radioaktive
Trümmer aufsammeln musste.
Blood and Champagne, the life of
Robert Capa, Alex Kershaw, Pan Books, ISBN
0-330-49250-0, 298 pages, 2002
A Hungarian, Capa was driven from his country by political
oppression and became the greatest war photographer of his
generation with his work during the Spanish Civil War. His
work during the Second World War made him a legend as he
covered many of the significant moments of the war, crossing
the Atlantic with a convoy in 1942, and following the Allies
through North Africa, Italy and then the liberation of
France.
Budapest 1956, die ungarische
Revolution, Erich Lessing, François Fetjö,
György Konrad, Nicolas Bauquet, Christian
Brandstätter Verlag, ISBN 3-902510-75-7, 248 Seiten,
2006
Erich Lessing war der erste Photograph, der in Ungarn
eintraf, und er dokumentierte den kurzlebigen Aufstand und
seine Folge mit einer Reihe von Photographien, die hier in
beeindruckendem Duotone wiedergegeben wurden. Diese
weltberühmten Bilder erwecken noch einmal die Hoffnung
und Euphorie der ersten Tage des Aufstandes zum Leben, die
bald gefolgt wurden von dem Schmerz seiner brutalen
Niederschlagung.
Carl Mydans Photojournalist, Carl
Mydans, Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 0-8109-1323-2, 207
pages, 1985
He chronicled the Great Depression, he watched Chiang
Kai-shek's troops face the Japanese in the Chinese
countryside. He was with General MacArthur when he landed on
Luzon in the invasion of the Philippines. And he was aboard
the Missouri to witness the Japanese surrender. He's one of
America's most famous and respected
photojournalists.
Don McCullin, Don McCullin,
Jonathan Cape London, ISBN 0-224-07118-1, 296 pages,
2003
Don McCullin is one of the greatest photographers of
conflict in our time. His career has covered much of the
latter part of the twentieth century, a relentlessly
photographed century steeped in conflict. This book is
conceived on a scale that does justice to his extraordinary
life.
Grüningers Fall, Stefan
Keller, Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 3-85869-157-7, 262 Seiten,
1993
Über jüdische Flüchtlinge, Schlepper,
Landjäger, Zöllner, Bauern und einen
Polizeioffizier mit Gewissen.
Hazardous Duty, Colonel David H.
Hackworth, Perennial, ISBN 978-0-380-7242-1, 353 pages,
2001
This is a necessary wake-up call for military reform - a
no-holds-barred, no-punches-pulled exposé that calls
America's top political and military leaders to account for
selling out duty, honor and country. It is riveting,
real-life adventure of courageous warriors on the world's
new battlefields - and of their systematic betrayal by the
weakness of an increasingly wasteful and inept high
command.
Jimmy Stewart Bomber Pilot, Starr
Smith, Zenith Press, ISBN 978-0-7603-2824-8, 287 pages,
2005
Of all the celebrities who served their country during World
War II, Jimmy Stewart was unique. at the height of his fame,
Jimmy Stewart enlisted in the army several months before the
Pearl Harbor attacks woke Hollywood and the rest of the
nation to the reality of war.
Legacy of Ashes, the history of
the CIA, Tim Weiner, Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-51445-3, 700
pages, 2007
For the last sixty years the CIA has managed to maintain a
formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record,
burying its blunders in top secrect archives. Its mission
was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out
to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the
words of President Eisenhower, "a legacy of
ashes.".
Mitrokhin Archive, Christopher
Andrew/Vasili Mitrakhin, Penguin, ISBN 0-713-99358-8, 900
pages, 1999
Mitrokhin, a secret dissident, spent over a decade noting
and copying highly classified files, which at enormous
personal risk, he smuggled daily out of the archives and
kept beneath his dacha floor. Mitrokhin's archive, which
extends from the Lenin era to the 1980s, have been described
by the FBI as 'the most complete and extensive intelligence
ever received from any source'.
Once There Was a War, John
Steinbeck, Penguin Classic, ISBN 0-14-118632-1, 233 pages,
2000
If you have forgotten what the war was like, Steinbeck will
refresh your memory. Age can never dull this kind of
writing.
Ost minus West = Null, Werner
Keller, Knaur, 450 Seiten, 1960
Mit dem sicheren Blick für aktuelle Probleme und mit
der ganzen Energie eines völlig unabhängigen
Publizisten hat Werner Keller sich der Frage zugewendet, wie
es zur heutigen Weltmachtstellung der UdSSR kommen konnte -
einer Frage, auf die bisher keine befriedigende Antwort
gegeben worden ist.
Pictures of Krupp, Klaus Tenfelde,
Philip Wilson Publishers, ISBN 0-85667-580-6, 384 pages,
2005
This book draws on a unique source: the thousands of
photographs held in the Historical Archive of the Fried.
Krupp company. For the period up to 1918 we are dealing with
a collection of historical pictures of incomparable quality
and importance. The photographs document the development of
the Krupp Works from the beginning of the great phase of
expansion in the 1860s to the decades when Krupp had become
a global consortium.
Robert Capa, The definitive
Collection, Richard Whelan, Phaidon, ISBN 0-7148-4067-X,
572 pages, 2001
Between 1990 and 1992, Richard Whelan and I reexamined all
of Robert Capa's contct sheets. From the appoximately 70,000
nagative frames that my brother exposed during his lifetime,
we chose 937 images to constitute an in-depth-though
certainly not exhaustive-survey of his finest work over the
entire course his career, from 1932 to 1954. Cornell
Capa
Russisches Tagebuch, Anna
Politkovskaja, Dumont, ISBN 978-3-8321-8022-5, 458 Seiten,
2007
Das "Russiche Tagebuch" entstand zwischen Dezember 2003 und
September 2005. Anna Politkovskajas Aufzeichnungen beginnen
mit Putins Kampagne zu seiner Wiederwahl und enden mit der
eindringlichen Frage: Habe ich Angst?
Bis zur Selbstaufgabe engagiert, persönlich und mit
Blick für das Schicksal des Einzelnen, beschreibt Anna
Politkovskaja in diesem Buch die Politik ihres Landes dieser
zwei weichenstellenden Jahre.
Slacks and Calluses - Our Summer in a
Bomber Factory, Constance Bowman Reid, Smithsonian
Books, ISBN 1-56098-368-X, 180 pages, 1999
In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part
for the war effort by working the swing shift on a B-24
production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a
male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they
learned to use tools that they had never seen before, live
with aluminium shavings in their hair, and get along with
supervisors and coworkers from all walks of life.
Slightly out of Focus, Robert
Capa, Modern Library New York, ISBN 0-375-75396-6, 236
pages, 2001
This book is the classic World War II memoir of one of the
most gifted photographers who ever lived. Robert Capa
arrived in Europe on a photojournalism assignment in 1941,
and for the next four years he traveled throughout the
embattled continent, documenting the war from the
perspective of the men and women of the Allied Forces who
befriended amused , and captivated him along the
way.
St. Gallen-Moskau-Aragon - Das Leben
des Spanienkämpfers Walter Wagner, Ralph Hug,
Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 978-3-85869-345-7, 350 Seiten, 2007
Im Leben des Spanienkämpfers Walter Wagner
widerspiegeln sich die historischen Umbrüche der
Schweiz von den 1930er- bis in die 1960er-Jahre.
The Code Book, Simon Singh, Fourth
Estate, ISBN 1-85702-879-1, 400 pages, 1999
Dramatic, compelling and remarkably far-reaching, The Code
Book will forever alter your view of history, what drives it
and how private your last e-mail really was. At the end of
this book, you will find the world-wide Cipher Challenge -
for which there is a £10,000 reward, donated by the
author, to be given to the first reader to successfully
crack it.
The Great Escape, Paul Brickhill,
Cassell, ISBN 0-304-35687-5, 264 pages, 1951
One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The
Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German
prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an
extraordinarily daring break-out. Made famous by the
Hollywood film of the same name.
The Railway Man, Eric Lomax,
Vintage, ISBN 0-09-958231-7, 278 pages, 1995
This is the story of innocence betrayed; of passion and
curiosity about the world of machines turned nightmarish,
and punished by the cruelty of which only humans are
capable. It is also a story of survival and of courage. Eric
Lomax was tortured by the Japanese on the Burma-Siam
Railway. Fifty years later he met one of his
tormentors.
The Sling and The Stone, Thomas X.
Hammes, Zentih Press, ISBN 978-0-7603-2407-3/0-7603-2407-7,
320 pages, 2006
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a career Marine,
Thomas X. Hammes spent most of his years on active duty
serving in infantry and intelligence assignments. One of the
first authors to define fourth-generation warfare, Colonel
Hammes has written numerous articles for defense journals
and lectured at war and staff colleges.
Unreasonable Behaviour, Don
McCullin, Vintage, ISBN 0-099-43776-7, 297 pages, 2002
'McCullin is required reading if you want to know what real
journalism is all about' THE TIMES
Zürich im Zweiten Weltkrieg,
Alfred Cattani, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, ISBN
3-85823-248-3, 150 Seiten,1989
Die Geschichte Zürichs zwischen 1939 und 1945 ist zu
einem guten Stück Schweizer Geschichte. Kriegsbedingter
Mangel, Luftkrieg, Verdunkelung und Bomben, Abwarten,
Anpassung und Widerstand-all das akzentuierte sich in einer
grossen Stadt wie Zürich.
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Verschiedene/Miscellanea
Andrew Christopher/Mitrokhin
Vasili, Mitrokhin Archive, Penguin, ISBN 0-713-99358-8,
900 pages, 1999
Mitrokhin, a secret dissident, spent over a decade noting
and copying highly classified files, which at enormous
personal risk, he smuggled daily out of the archives and
kept beneath his dacha floor. Mitrokhin's archive, which
extends from the Lenin era to the 1980s, have been described
by the FBI as 'the most complete and extensive intelligence
ever received from any source'.
Boos Susan, Beherrschtes
Entsetzen, Das Leben in der Ukraine zehn Jahre nach
Tschernobyl, Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 3-85869-162-3, 252 Seiten,
1996
Nach dem Schrecken kommen die Beschwichtigungen. Auch in der
Ukraine würden viele gern verdrängen. Warum das
nicht geht, erzählt zum Beispiel der
Afghanistan-Veteran Juri Kolatschuk, der radioaktive
Trümmer aufsammeln musste.
Bowman Reid Constance, Slacks and
Calluses - Our Summer in a Bomber Factory, Smithsonian
Books, ISBN 1-56098-368-X, 180 pages, 1999
In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part
for the war effort by working the swing shift on a B-24
production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a
male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they
learned to use tools that they had never seen before, live
with aluminium shavings in their hair, and get along with
supervisors and coworkers from all walks of life.
Brickhill Paul, The Great Escape,
Cassell, ISBN 0-304-35687-5, 264 pages, 1951
One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The
Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German
prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an
extraordinarily daring break-out. Made famous by the
Hollywood film of the same name.
Capa Robert, Slightly out of
Focus, Modern Library New York, ISBN 0-375-75396-6, 236
pages, 2001
This book is the classic World War II memoir of one of the
most gifted photographers who ever lived. Robert Capa
arrived in Europe on a photojournalism assignment in 1941,
and for the next four years he traveled throughout the
embattled continent, documenting the war from the
perspective of the men and women of the Allied Forces who
befriended amused , and captivated him along the
way.
Cattani Alfred, Zürich im
Zweiten Weltkrieg, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, ISBN
3-85823-248-3, 150 Seiten,1989
Die Geschichte Zürichs zwischen 1939 und 1945 ist zu
einem guten Stück Schweizer Geschichte. Kriegsbedingter
Mangel, Luftkrieg, Verdunkelung und Bomben, Abwarten,
Anpassung und Widerstand-all das akzuentierte sich in einer
grossen Stadt wie Zürich.
Figes Orlando, A People's Tragedy,
The Russian Revolution 1891 - 1924, Penguin, ISBN
978-0-14-024364-2, 923 pages, 1997
Vast in scope, eshaustive in original research, written with
passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy. This book
presents the first comprehensive history of the Russian
Revolution in a single volume.
Hackworth David H., Hazardous
Duty, Perennial, ISBN 978-0-380-7242-1, 353 pages, 2001
This is a necessary wake-up call for military reform - a
no-holds-barred, no-punches-pulled exposé that calls
America's top political and military leaders to accound for
selling out duty, honor and country. It is reveting,
real-life adventure of courageous warriors on the world's
new battlefields- and of their systematic betrayal by the
weakness of an increasingly wasteful and inept high
command.
Hammes Thomas X., The Sling and
The Stone, Zentih Press, ISBN
978-0-7603-2407-3/0-7603-2407-7, 320 pages, 2006
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a career Marine,
Thomas X. Hammes spent most of his years on active duty
serving in infantry and intelligence assignments. One of the
first authors to define fourth-generation warfare, Colonel
Hammes has written numerous articles for defense journals
and lectured at war and staff colleges.
Hug Ralph, St.
Gallen-Moskau-Aragon - Das Leben des Spanienkämpfers
Walter Wagner, Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 978-3-85869-345-7, 350
Seiten, 2007
Im Leben des Spanienkämpfers Walter Wagner
widerspiegeln sich die historischen Umbrüche der
Schweiz von den 1930er- bis in 1960er-Jahre.
Kahaner Larry, AK-47 The Weapon
that changed the Face of War, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-72641-9, 258
pages, 2007
The world's most popular and lethal weapon goes by many
names - "The African Credit Card," the "$10 Weapon of Mass
Destruction" - and you see it every day in movies, on TV, in
magazines and newspaper. You see it in the hands of
legitimate armies but more often brandished by insurgents,
terrorists, and even child soldiers. AK-47 tells the story
of this most vicious and effective weapon, and how those who
wield it have changed the world.
Keller Stefan, Grüningers
Fall, Rotpunktverlag, ISBN 3-85869-157-7, 262 Seiten,
1993
Über jüdische Flüchtlinge, Schlepper,
Landjäger, Zöllner, Bauern und einen
Polizeioffizier mit Gewissen.
Keller Werner, Ost minus West =
Null, Knaur, 450 Seiten, 1960
Mit dem sicheren Blick für aktuelle Probleme und mit
der ganzen Energie eines völlig unabhängigen
Publizisten hat Werner Keller sich der Frage zugewendet, wie
es zur heutigen Weltmachtstellung der UdSSR kommen konnte -
einer Frage, auf die bisher keine befriedigende Antwort
gegeben worden ist.
Kershaw Alex, Blood and
Champagne, the life of Robert Capa, Pan Books, ISBN
0-330-49250-0, 298 pages, 2002
A Hungarian, Capa was driven from his country by political
oppression and became the greatest war photographer of his
generation with his work during the Spanish Civil War. His
work during the Second World War made him a legend as he
covered many of the significant moments of the war, crossing
the Atlantic with a convoy in 1942, and following the Allies
through North Africa, Italy and then the liberation of
France.
Lessing Erich, Budapest 1956, die
ungarische Revolution, François Fetjö,
György Konrad, Nicolas Bauquet, Christian
Brandstätter Verlag, ISBN 3-902510-75-7, 248 Seiten,
2006
Erich Lessing war der erste Photograph, der in Ungarn
eintraf, und er dokumentierte den kurzlebigen Aufstand und
seine Folge mit einer Reihe von Photographien, die hier in
beeindruckendem Duotone wiedergegeben wurden. Diese
weltberühmten Bilder erwecken noch einmal die Hoffnung
und Euphorie der ersten Tage des Aufstandes zum Leben, die
bald gefolgt wurden von dem Schmerz seiner brutalen
Niederschlagung.
Lomax Eric, The Railway Man,
Vintage, ISBN 0-09-958231-7, 278 pages, 1995
This is the story of innocence betrayed; of passion and
curiosity about the world of machines turned nightmarish,
and punished by the cruelty of which only humans are
capable. It is also a story of survival and of courage. Eric
Lomax was tortured by the Japanese on the Burma-Siam
Railway. Fifty years later he met one of his
tormentors.
McCullin Don, Don McCullin,
Jonathan Cape London, ISBN 0-224-07118-1, 296 pages,
2003
Don McCullin is one of the greatest photographers of
conflict in our time. His career has covered much of the
latter part of the twentieth century, a relentlessly
photographed century steeped in conflict. This book is
conceived on a scale that does justice to his extraordinary
life.
McCullin Don, Unreasonable
Behaviour, Vintage, ISBN 0-099-43776-7, 297 pages, 2002
'McCullin is required reading if you want to know what real
journalism is all about' THE TIMES
Mydans Carl, Carl
Mydans Photojournalist, Harry N. Abrams, ISBN 0-8109-1323-2,
207 pages, 1985
He chronicled the Great Depression, he watched Chiang
Kai-shek's troops face the Japanese in the Chinese
countryside. He was with General MacArthur when he landed on
Luzon in the invasion of the Philippines. And he was aboard
the Missouri to witness the Japanese surrender. He's one of
America's most famous and respected
photojournalists.
Politkovskaja Anna, Russisches
Tagebuch, Dumont, ISBN 978-3-8321-8022-5, 458 Seiten,
2007
Das "Russiche Tagebuch" entstand zwischen Dezember 2003 und
September 2005. Anna Politkovskajas Aufzeichnungen beginnen
mit Putins Kampagne zu seiner Wiederwahl und enden mit der
eindringlichen Frage: Habe ich Angst?
Bis zur Selbstaufgabe engagiert, persönlich und mit
Blick für das Schicksal des Einzelnen, beschreibt Anna
Politkovskaja in diesem Buch die Politik ihres Landes dieser
zwei weichenstellenden Jahre.
Singh Simon, The Code Book, Fourth
Estate, ISBN 1-85702-879-1, 400 pages, 1999
Dramatic, compelling and remarkably far-reaching, The Code
Book will forever alter your view of history, what drives it
and how private your last e-mail really was. At the end of
this book, you will find the world-wide Cipher Challenge -
for which there is a £10,000 reward, donated by the
author, to be given to the first reader to successfully
crack it.
Smith Starr, Jimmy Stewart Bomber
Pilot, Zenith Press, ISBN 978-0-7603-2824-8, 287 pages,
2005
Of all the celebrities who served their country during World
War II, Jimmy Stewart was unique. at the height of his fame,
Jimmy Stewart enlisted in the army several months before the
Pearl Harbor attacks woke Hollywood and the rest of the
nation to the reality of war.
Steinbeck John, A Russian Journal,
Penguin Classics, ISBN 0-14-118633-X, 212 pages, 2000
A classic work of reportage from John Steinbeck and famed
war photojournalist Robert Capa.
Steinbeck John, Once There Was a
War, Penguin Classic, ISBN 0-14-118632-1, 233 pages,
2000
If you have forgotten what the war was like, Steinbeck will
refresh your memory. Age can never dull this kind of
writing.
Stora Bejamin , Algeria,
1830-2000, a short history, Cornell University Press, ISBN
0-8014-8916-4, 283 pages, 2001
This book contains a wealth of reliable and useful
historical information, including detailed treatments of the
country's politics, economics, society, and foreign
relations.
Tenfelde Klaus, Pictures of Krupp,
Philip Wilson Publishers, ISBN 0-85667-580-6, 384 pages,
2005
This book draws on a unique source: the thousands of
photographs held in the Historical Archive of the Fried.
Krupp company. For the period up to 1918 we are dealing with
a collection of historical pictures of incomparable quality
and importance. The photographs document the development of
the Krupp Works from the beginning of the great phase of
expansion in the 1860s to the decades when Krupp had become
a global consortium.
Weiner Tim, Legacy of Ashes, the
history of the CIA, Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-51445-3, 700
pages, 2007
For the last sixty years the CIA has managed to maintain a
formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record,
burying its blunders in top secrect archives. Its mission
was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out
to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the
words of President Eisenhower, "a legacy of
ashes."
Whelan Richard, Robert Capa, The
definitive Collection, Phaidon, ISBN 0-7148-4067-X, 572
pages, 2001
Between 1990 and 1992, Richard Whelan and I reexamined all
of Robert Capa's contct sheets. From the appoximately 70,000
nagative frames that my brother exposed during his lifetime,
we chose 937 images to constitute an in-depth-though
certainly not exhaustive-survey of his finest work over the
entire course his career, from 1932 to 1954. Cornell
Capa
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