One of the few Americans who lived in Vietnam during both the French and American involvements describes his experiences as a Foreign Service officer and chronicles the growth of Vietnam from colonialism to today.

Tiger in the Barbed Wire: An American in Vietnam, 1952-1991

History

Simpson, Howard R.

Asia

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When "60 Minutes" asked for America's expert on Mafia activities in the United States and Sicily, the U.S. government gave them Tom Tripodi. Crusade is the story of this bare-knuckled son of Italian immigrants who learned the Mafia's secrets--from the inside out. Learn how Tom Tripodi helped put dozens of mafiosi and drug dealers in jail and how his fellow law enforcement officials in Italy have been blown away.

Crusade: Undercover Against the Mafia and KGB

Politics & Social Sciences

DeSario, Joseph P.

Tripodi, Tom

Social Sciences

Crossed Currents is the first history of women in the U.S. Navy. Since the World War I service of Yeoman (F) Loretta Perfectus Walsh - the first U.S. servicewoman not a nurse - through the Gulf War and the recent Tailhook scandal, women have struggled for acceptance within the U.S. Navy. This book tells a fascinating story of two currents crossing and recrossing, sometimes conflicting, sometimes converging. One current is the Navy's attempt to include women gradually without losing its traditional values. The other is that of women challenging the Navy's assumptions, their aspirations rising as their opportunities widen. And as any sailor knows, where currents cross the waters are troubled. Jean Ebbert and Marie-Beth Hall have written a comprehensive and inspiring history that covers Tailhook in depth and shows why it was to be expected. Crossed Currents will make waves.

Crossed Currents: Navy Women from Wwi to Tailhook

Ebbert, Jean

Hall, Marie-Beth

Military

Over the past forty years, we have seen more advances in science and technology than in all of previous history. Our world has been transformed in ways that surpass the wildest imagination: advances in telecommunications let us sit in our living rooms and watch events taking place on the other side of the planet - wars, sporting events, famines, revolutions - as they actually occur; high school students around the world think nothing today of doing their homework on personal computers, each a fraction of the size and hundreds of times more powerful than the experimental models of the Fifties; doctors routinely perform delicate surgery with lasers. Fiberoptic cables connected to video cameras permit them to see inside the body and operate through tiny holes in the skin or without cutting the skin at all; military pilots and soldiers use infrared technology to see in the dark and electronic guidance to attack distant targets with unbelievable precision. Electronic simulators, like the time machines of science fiction, let them fight the wars of the future in a world of "virtual reality; and meteorologists, with data gathered by satellites and processed by computers, predict the movement of dangerous storms and save untold lives every year. In medicine, communications, education, defense, transportation - everywhere we look - science and technology have changed our way of life. This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the development of some of the essential technologies that, almost overnight, have changed the way you live: microchips, microprocessors and computers, communications satellites, simulators, lasers, fiber optics, thermal imaging, radar, and more. Inventing the Future is fascinating reading because it includes the inspiring stories of the inventors - creative men and women with visions and the courage to pursue them. By describing its incredible impact on your daily life, noted technology writer F. Clifton Berry, Jr., makes the world of science and technology understandable and one to which we all can relate. Inventing the Future is for you if you want to understand today's highly technical world and how it got that way. It's your invitation to join in mankind's most exciting adventure: the creation of tomorrow's world.

Inventing the Future: How Science and Technology Transform Our World

Berry, F. Clifton, Jr.

The former charge+a7 d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Tehran during its occupation by Iranian militants describes his 444-day ordeal as a hostage, his feelings and thoughts during captivity, and his insights into revolutionary Iran.

Yellow Ribbon: The Secret Journal of Bruce Laingen

Laingen, L. Bruce

Biographies & Memoirs

In the morning darkness of December 20, 1989, with precision timing and deadly high-tech weapons, U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine forces attacked Panamanian soldiers commanded by dictator Manuel Noriega. Within hours most military objectives were achieved - and with minimal American casualties. Operation Just Cause was an overwhelming lightning strike that in many ways presaged the joint-forces blitz of Operation Desert Storm a little over a year later. Retired Army general Edward M. Flanagan, Jr., had unequaled access to Just Cause's key planners and to official after-action reports. His sixth book, Battle for Panama contains exciting tales of fierce combat, as told by the troops themselves. Its foreword is by Gen. Maxwell R. Thurman, USA (Ret.), who headed the U.S. Southern Command during the battle, and it has been selected by the Association of the U.S. Army for its distinguished AUSA Book Series.

Battle for Panama: Inside Operation Just Cause (An Ausa Book)

Edward M. Flanagan

Whirlwind: The Official U.S. Army History of the Gulf War

CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

Americas

An international security expert focuses on the principal air terrorist acts since the mid-1980s.

Combating Air Terrorism

Travel

Wallis, Rodney

Travel Writing

The fighting began in November 1953, when French paratroopers seized a small airstrip in northwestern Vietnam. It ended in May 1954 with tens of thousands of Vietminh troops overrunning the besieged garrison. A third of the 15,000 defenders died in combat; fewer than a hundred escaped into the jungle. Thousands more died in captivity. Dien Bien Phu is recognized as one of history's great battles and as a turning point for American policy: the French defeat led to the fateful U.S. commitment to Vietnam. Ironically, the U.S. military repeated many of the French mistakes. American Howard R. Simpson was there as a combat reporter and photographer. His account is a personal one - that of a man who shared meals and wine and danger with the doomed soldiers. A much-published defense expert, Simpson is uniquely qualified to tell the dramatic story of this famous last stand. Aided by interviews with dozens of survivors from both sides - including victorious Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap - his book will rank with Bernard Fall's bestselling Hell in a Very Small Place as a classic work on an event as significant for the United States as it was for France. Dien Bien Phu is being published on the fortieth anniversary of the French defeat and contains rare combat photos by the author and the French Foreign Legion.

Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot

The crucial "big week" of February 1944 pitted Jimmy Doolittle's 8th Air Force against Adolph Gallund's Luftwaffe, during which the warplanes of the 8th crippled every Nazi installation they attacked and severely limited the Luftwaffe's effectiveness, setting the stage for the Normandy invasion.

The Big Week: The Classic Story of the Crucial Air Battle of Wwii

Infield, Glenn B.

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