Now she is working out her last commission in the Gulf of Thailand. To Lieutenant-Commander Standish, the frigate seems to mark the end of his hopes of a career in the Navy. Then a new captain arrives, a man driven by an old-fashioned, almost obsessive patriotism. And under his stubborn leadership Standish and the crew discover a long-forgotten unity of purpose...

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    There are no victors, no vanquished. There are simply those who remain alive, and those who die.Bomber follows the progress of an Allied air raid through a period of twenty-four hours in the summer of 1943. It portrays all the participants in a terrifying drama, both in the air and on the ground, in Britain and in Germany.In its documentary style, it is unique. In its emotional power it is overwhelming.Len Deighton has been equally acclaimed as a novelist and as an historian. In Bomber he has combined both talents to produce a masterpiece.

    An updated and revised version of this classic compendium of the military history of the world.

    After surviving the shoot-down of his reconnaissance plane and his capture on May 1, 1960, Powers endured sixty-one days of rigorous interrogation by the KGB, a public trial, a conviction for espionage, and the start of a ten-year sentence. After nearly two years, the U.S. government obtained his release from prison in a dramatic exchange for convicted Soviet spy Rudolph Abel. The narrative is a tremendously exciting suspense story about a man who was labeled a traitor by many of his countrymen but who emerged a Cold War hero.

    Eighth Air Force as "The Mighty" is back again in a revised edition. The most remarkable and most popular account of WWII aviation depicts the 8th from its arrival in Britain in 1942, to its spread across the country to operate from over 40 bases, on the way to becoming the largest air unit ever committed to battle. An extensively detailed and fully researched account covers intensive bomber and fighter sorties over Europe conducted by over 2,000 aircraft involving over 150,000 men. The exploits of B-17s, B-26s, and P-47s are told, along with little-known explanations of the vastly sophisticated supply chain that kept them flying. Over 700 photos of planes on the ground and in battle action depict formations and strategies, while over 150 full-color illustrations display aircraft group markings.

    This popular and highly-acclaimed series includes an abundance of photos, accurate line drawings, fascinating evaluations of aircraft design, and complete histories of aircraft manufacturers.

    Based largely on some 1000 interviews with participants of all nations, it describes the important military and diplomatic events of that epic war - from the struggle between Truman and Dean Rusk to the fall of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter; from the Irgun-Stern Gang massacre at Deir Yassin to the ambush of a Hadassah hospital convoy; from the clandestine operations of the Jewish underground in the US to the secret negotiations between Jordan's King Abdullah and Moshe Dayan. Here are anecdotes and glimpses of great figures such as Weizmann, Ben-Gurion, Dayan, Abba Eban, Abdullah, Glubb Pasha, Ralph Bunche, and Nasser, and of the ordinary people who did the fighting; concentration-camp survivors, Sabras, foreign volunteers, and Arabs from throughout the Middle East. Here are all the major and minor participants and events of the great conflict that set the stage for and is crucial to the understanding of the present-day Israeli nation.

    

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    The Japanese army, though outnumbered by 20,000 men, defeated the British only one week after the actual assault began. "Fortress" Singapore turned out to be nothing of the sort, with its defenders ill prepared and complacent. It was all too ripe for handing Japan its second victory of the war after Hong Kong.

    

    

    

    F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and historians. In this magisterial work he spans military history from the Greeks to the end of World War II, describing tactics, battle lines, the day-to-day struggles while always relating affairs on the field to the larger questions of social, political, and economic change in Western civilization. A masterpiece of scholarship and biting prose. This is the 1970 abridged edition in two volumes of the original 1954 complete edition.

    This begins with a long genealogy and takes shape as a sad psycho-history of trauma: the delicate word "plain" assumes almost freakish proportions as it exiles Mary Ann to the solitary confines of her mind; only her affectionate father (who repeatedly calls her "my little wench") and idolized brother Isaac (who cannot return her desperate adoration) animate her unhappy years at boarding school until she finds a mentor in Maria Lewis and surpasses her in exaggerated piety. Straitjacketing herself in herself in an evangelical refuge, Mary Ann begins to question every worldly pleasure while still a student, finding a niche in, but no outlet for, scholarship; later, tending her widowed father and meeting new, freethinking people, she embarks on an about-face renouncing church and challenging meaningless custom. All of which is all the more poignant for being generated by borrowed strength: without the helping hands of Charles and Cara Bray and their stimulating, accepting cortege of intellectuals, Mary Ann barely functions and is variously exploited before falling in love with the unattractive but entirely devoted George Henry Lewes, her common-law husband and the man who urged her to write her novels. Each of these is briefly described from the viewpoint of the total George Eliot corpus, and Miss Vipont concludes "Marian Evans became a great novelist when she found the 'high attic' which symbolized that inward peace which at last enabled her to create a significant world. The rest of her story belongs to history." This is not, then, a literary biography, but an oddly proprietary, even maternal study of the making of George Eliot out of a fragile, burdened Mary Ann Evans; its British orientation goes without saying, but not so, perhaps, the discomfort arising from such intense probing (replete with underdeveloped overtones) at an ambiguously young level by American standards. (Kirkus)

    B&W photos by famous photographer, Duncan, and narrative of soldiers in Vietnam during the Vietnam war.LC number: 70-123926