Search Results: History -- Viet Nam from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Secker & Warburg, London, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 450 g; XII, 244 pages, plus six pages of black-and-white photography in a central section. With original photographic illustrated dust jacket. The dust jacket has a 0.5 inch tear towards the spine on the lower edge of the rear panel, and has been price clipped on the front fold over flap. There is spotting/foxing to the top edge of the text block, and the Australian distributor (Melbourne University Press) has their neat rubberstamp showing July 1967 and the bottom right-hand corner of the front end page. No other damage to report. "-- is a book of great an immediate importance. It is also a warmly vivid personal narrative, full of such scenes as thousands of worshippers entering Hanoi's Cathedral to celebrate Mass on Christmas Day. Mr Salisbury is strongly critical of both the inhumanity and the ineffectiveness of America's so-called strategic bombing. He… Read More

the Bodley Head, London, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 680 g; X 326 pages, in original black papered boards, with gilt writing. Slight rubbing and bumping into the bottom edge of the boards. The illustrated dust jacket is rubbed and chipped, with tears at each of the four corners of the top edge of the jacket, and at the bottom of the front fold over. The rear panel also has a 1 inch tear. The author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in the spring of 1964 for his coverage of the Vietnamese War gives in this comprehensive and extraordinary personal account of his 15 months in South Vietnam, an indictment of the conduct and leadership of the war, of the delusions of American military and diplomatic leaders, and of the falsified and misleading statistics foisted on newspaper correspondence and readers. He tells of the CIA, the Buddhists as a political force, the underrated Vietcong, and includes an incisive portrait of the remarkable ruling family, the Nhus. Size: 8vo -… Read More

the Bodley Head, London, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 300 g; X, 118 pages, in original hardcover binding with photographic illustrated dust jacket. Traces of foxing to the top edge and also to the rear paste down. Melbourne University Press rubberstamp dating receipt of book to October the third 1969 . traces of foxing to the spine section of the jacket, and rubbing of the front and rear fold over creases. "This book is a deeply felt indictment of the American position in Vietnam by a Spectre journalist who, until 1965, was one of the many who defended. -- in an incisive analysis of foreign policy since 1945, he examines the radical move in the American public opinion from the brash anti-communism of McCarthy and Dulles to the more conscience-stricken attitudes of today." -- front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under… Read More