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University of California Press. Paperback. New. Paperback. 584 pages. Dimensions: 8.7in. x 5.6in. x 1.6in.Al Capone, George Machine Gun Kelly, Alvin Karpis, Dock Barkerthese were just a… Mehr…

University of California Press. Paperback. New. Paperback. 584 pages. Dimensions: 8.7in. x 5.6in. x 1.6in.Al Capone, George Machine Gun Kelly, Alvin Karpis, Dock Barkerthese were just a few of the legendary public enemies for whom Americas first supermax prison was created. In Alcatraz: The Gangster Years, David Ward brings their stories to life, along with vivid accounts of the lives of other infamous criminals who passed through the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948. Ward, who enjoyed unprecedented access to FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Parole records, conducted interviews with one hundred former Alcatraz convicts, guards, and administrators to produce this definitive history of The Rock. Alcatraz is the only book with authoritative answers to questions that have swirled about the prison: How did prisoners cope psychologically with the harsh regime What provoked the protests and strikes How did security flaws lead to the sensational escape attempts And what happened when these habitual, incorrigible convicts were finally released By shining a light on the most famous prison in the world, Ward also raises timely questions about todays supermax prisons. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., University of California Press, Ishi Press. Paperback. New. Paperback. 370 pages. Dimensions: 8.4in. x 5.4in. x 0.9in.After decades of producing fiction that was rejected by mainstream readership and reviewers for being self-centered, exotic in prose, filled with psychological theory, and coterie in style, Anais finally found acceptance by integrating all of the above in this published version of her diary. Timing is everything. The world of the 1930s-50s simply was not ready for her. The Aquarian generation of the 1960s was. When originally published this volume did not have a number in the title because no one thought it would sell enough to warrant a second volume. To the surprise of many, it would become the first in seven volumes - and then over 20 years later the unexpurgated versions of her diaries would be published, revealing that Anais was at the time having an affair with Henry Miller. Eventually this material would be fashioned into the movie Henry and June. It would also pave the way for the re-issue of many of Anais Nins long since out-of-print earlier fiction. Anais Nin began a letter to her father, on the ship that carried her, her mother and brothers, away from him, away from Europe and to New York City. The letter was never sent (her mother did not think it appropriate), but instead developed into a diary she would continue to keep for decades. In this volume we meet Anais Nin living just outside of Paris with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler (who is barely visible in the diary, a point of contention for many who did not know that this was at his request). She has just published her study of DH Lawrence and is about to meet Henry Miller and his fascinating wife June (Nins descriptions of June are among the most beautiful portions of her work). Her father soon reenters her life. This is a very exciting time in her life! But what have I listed above Nothing but a pile of facts. Facts are often boring, and seldom poetic - two accusations rarely leveled against Anais Nin. It was only after submerging myself in the history of this volume that I came to realize this: the linear history of this diary does not really matter; the accusations that Anais Nin lied about her life are immaterial. Anais Nin had a beautiful way with words and she was a master of crafting an image, of creating a persona. She was not truly the person she portrays in this volume. But this is a beautiful and unique piece of literature that paved the way for many future artists, particularly female writers (Alice Walker has praised her work as profoundly liberating, and I cant help but think Maya Angelou took a cue from Anais Nins concept of the continuous autobiographical novel). I have come to believe that it is not the possibility that she lied about her life that has upset so many people (some of whom refer to this as a liary), but that a woman should have such control over her own portrayal all the while defying so many of societys conventions. Anais Nin may not have truly been the woman she portrays in this or future volumes, but it is the woman she wanted to believe she was - wanted the world to believe she was. I find that quite revealing, as revealing as any diary should be. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Ishi Press, New York: South Street Seaport Museum, 1972. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full embossed burgundy-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 288, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc.. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... SS Leviathan, originally built as Vaterland, was an ocean liner which regularly crossed the North Atlantic from 1914 to 1934. The second of three sister ships built for Germany's Hamburg America Line for their transatlantic passenger service, she sailed as Vaterland for less than a year before her early career was halted by the start of World War I. In 1917, she was seized by the U.S. government and renamed Leviathan. She would become known by this name for the majority of her career, both as a troopship during World War I and later as the flagship of the United States Lines., South Street Seaport Museum, 1972, New York, NY: Random House, 1999. First edition. First edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xvii, [9], 402, [4] p. Illustrations. Maps. Books by Freya Stark. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Illustration Credits. From Wikipedia: "Dame Freya Madeline Stark (Mrs Stewart Perowne), DBE (born 31 January 1893 in Paris, France; died 9 May 1993 in Asolo, Italy) was a British explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan, as well as several autobiographic works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabians to travel through the southern Arabian deserts. During World War I she worked as a nurse in Italy, [5] where her mother had remained and taken a share in a business. Her sister Vera married the co-owner. In November 1927 she visited Asolo for the first time in years. Later that month she boarded a ship for Beirut, where her travels in the East began. She stayed first at the home of James Elroy Flecker in Lebanon, then in Baghdad, Iraq (then a British protectorate), where she met the British high commissioner. By 1931 she had completed three dangerous treks into the wilderness of western Iran, parts of which no Westerner had ever visited, and had located the long-fabled Valleys of the Assassins (Hashshashins). She described these explorations in The Valleys of the Assassins (1934). In 1935 she travelled to the Hadhramaut, the hinterland of southern Arabia, where only a handful of Western explorers had previously ventured, never as far or as widely as she went. [8] She published her account of the region in three books, The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut (1936), Seen In The Hadhramaut (1938) and A Winter in Arabia (1940). During World War II she joined the British Ministry of Information, and contributed to the creation of the propaganda network Ikhwan al Hurriya ('Brotherhood of Freedom') aimed at persuading Arabs to support the Allies or at least remain neutral. [9] These wartime experiences were described in her Letters from Syria (1942) and East is West (1945). In 1947, at the age of 54, she married Stewart Perowne, a British administrator and historian. [10] The couple did not have children, and separated in 1952 (but did not divorce). During these years she wrote nothing on travel and exploration, but published a volume of miscellaneous essays, Perseus in the Wind (1948) and three volumes of autobiography, Traveller's Prelude (1950), Beyond Euphrates. Autobiography 1928-1933 (1951) and The Coast of Incense. Autobiography 1933-1939 (1953). Stewart Perowne died in 1989. Her first extensive travels after the war were in Turkey, which were the basis of her books Ionia a Quest (1954), The Lycian Shore (1956), Alexander's Path (1958) and Riding to the Tigris (1959). After this she continued her memoirs with Dust in the Lion's Paw. Autobiography 1939-1946 (1961), and published a history of Rome on the Euphrates: The Story of a Frontier (1966) and another collection of essays, The Zodiac Arch (1968). The last expedition of her old age was to Afghanistan; and in 1970 she published The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion into Afghanistan. In her retirement at Asolo, apart from a short survey, Turkey: A Sketch of Turkish History (1971), she busied herself by putting together a new collection of essays, A Peak in Darien (1976), and preparing selections of her Letters (8 volumes, 1974-82; one volume, Over the rim of the world: selected letters, 1982) and of her travel writings, The Journey's Echo (1988). She died at Asolo on 9 May 1993, a few months after her hundredth birthday., Random House, 1999, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First U.S. Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xii, [2], 224, [4] pages. Maps, Illustrations. Index. Jack Nissen (1918-1997) was a technician who worked on radar developments and installations during World War II. Recounted in his memoir, Winning the Radar War, Jack Nissen was part of a secret reconnaissance assignment during the Dieppe Raid. The Canadian South Saskatchewan Regiment escorted Nissen in his quest to find out more about the German Freya radar installed at Pourville, near Dieppe. His job was to find out if Germany possessed precision radar technology. However, because of his valuable knowledge of the British radar, the South Saskatchewan Regiment was under orders to shoot and kill the radar specialist should the task be intercepted by the Germans and the raiding party be in danger of capture; under no circumstances could the British afford to let Nissen be taken alive. With numerous close calls during the raid, which was eventually successful, Nissen escaped capture and returned to England. His action in cutting the land lines and forcing the Freya operators to resort to radio transmissions, which the British radio listeners were able to monitor, confirmed that the German Freya radar was indeed a precision installation. Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic waves in the radio or microwaves domain, an emitting antenna, a receiving antenna (separate or the same as the previous one) to capture any returns from objects in the path of the emitted signal, a receiver and processor to determine properties of the object(s).Radar was secretly developed by several nations in the period before and during World War II. The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging. The term radar has since entered English and other languages as a common noun, losing all capitalization. Full radar evolved as a pulsed system, and the first such elementary apparatus was demonstrated in December 1934 by the American Robert M. Page, working at the Naval Research Laboratory. The following year, the United States Army successfully tested a primitive surface-to-surface radar to aim coastal battery search lights at night. This was followed by a pulsed system demonstrated in May 1935 by Rudolf Kühnhold and the firm GEMA in Germany and then one in June 1935 by an Air Ministry team led by Robert A. Watson-Watt in Great Britain. Development of radar greatly expanded on 1 September 1936 when Watson-Watt became Superintendent of a new establishment under the British Air Ministry, Bawdsey Research Station located in Bawdsey Manor, near Felixstowe, Suffolk. Work there resulted in the design and installation of aircraft detection and tracking stations called "Chain Home" along the East and South coasts of England in time for the outbreak of World War II in 1939. This system provided the vital advance information that helped the Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain.An earlier report about aircraft causing radio interference led to the Daventry Experiment of 26 February 1935, using a powerful BBC shortwave transmitter as the source and their GPO receiver set up in a field while a bomber flew around the site. When returns were clearly seen, funds were immediately provided for development of an operational system. Watt's team patented the device in GB593017. Given all required funding and development support, the team had working radar systems in 1935 and began deployment. By 1936 the first five Chain Home (CH) systems were operational and by 1940 stretched across the entire UK including Northern Ireland. Even by standards of the era, CH was crude; instead of broadcasting and receiving from an aimed antenna, CH broadcast a signal floodlighting the entire area in front of it, and then used one of Watt's own radio direction finders to determine the direction of the returned echoes. This meant that CH transmitters had to be much more powerful and have better antennas than competing systems but allowed its rapid introduction using existing technologies. In April 1940, Popular Science showed an example of a radar unit using the Watson-Watt patent in an article on air defense. Also, in late 1941 Popular Mechanics had an article in which a U.S. scientist speculated about the British early warning system on the English east coast and came close to what it was and how it worked. Alfred Lee Loomis organized the Radiation Laboratory at Cambridge, Massachusetts which developed the technology in the years 1941-45. Later, in 1943, Page greatly improved radar with the monopulse technique that was used for many years in most radar applications. The war precipitated research to find better resolution, more portability, and more features for radar, including complementary navigation systems like Oboe used by the RAF's Pathfinder., St. Martin's Press, 1987, New York, : Crossroad, , 1983. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. . New York, Crossroad, 1983. 23.4cm x 15.8cm. 200 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The Missionary Sisters of St. Columban (commonly referred to as the Columban Sisters, abbreviated as S.S.C.) are a religious institute of Religious Sisters dedicated to serve the poor and needy in the underdeveloped nations of the world. They were founded in Ireland in 1924 to share in the work of the priests of the Missionary Society of St. Columban. The origins of the Columban Sisters lay in the work of the Reverend Edward J. Galvin, a priest from County Cork, Ireland. Long desiring to serve in the Chinese missions, he finally was able to go there in 1916 to serve in the missions. He was quickly overwhelmed by the needs of the Chinese people, both materially and spiritually. By 1918, he had founded the Columban Fathers, who quickly developed to the point where they could establish their own mission in China within two years. Seeing the need for the help of women in the work, especially to care for women and children, one of the founders, John Blowick, recruited several women for this endeavor. Among them was Lady Frances Moloney, a widow, Mary Martin, who had gained nursing experience on the battle lines of Somme, and Agnes Ryan, a schoolteacher. The latter two had joined the new endeavor through their mutual spiritual director, the Reverend Thomas Ronayne. The women then began medical training in England under individual programs to prepare for service in China. Just as Martin was about to take a course in obstetrics, she was called home to care for her ailing mother. While back in her hometown, Ronayne introduced her to a newly named bishop for Africa, who was also recruiting women to serve in his territory. Martin decided to sign up for this effort instead of China. She was joined in this by Ryan. Moloney continued with the training and became the foundress of the Columban Sisters. Martin went to Africa, where she founded the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1937. A novitiate for the new congregation was opened on 1 February 1922 for the candidates in Cahiracon, County Clare. That first class numbered nine women, and included Moloney (now known as Sister Mary Patrick) as well as a candidate from Australia. Upon completion of the novitiate in 1924, Moloney was professed and the new congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban was canonically established, with Mother Mary Patrick being appointed as the Superior General. By September 1926 the congregation had developed to the point where a community of six Sisters could be sent to China, departing from the port of Cobh. They traveled to the Hanyang District of China, which had been entrusted to the Columban Fathers by the Holy See, and began their work in collaboration with the Fathers in that region. The Sisters continued their work in China for three decades, during an era of massive social instability in that nation. They arrived in the middle of the civil war between the Nationalist Army and the Chinese Communist Party. Relief ships were looted regularly and famine and disease was widespread. They worked to the point of exhaustion nursing the victims of a disastrous flood of the Yangtze River in 1934. The invasion of China by Japan in 1937 had them nursing both civilians and soldiers from an massive outbreak of cholera. The outbreak of World War II forced the Sisters from the Allied nations either to leave the country or face house arrest. With the victory of the Communist forces in 1949, all institutions of the Columban missionaries were seized by the government, and by 1952, all the Columban Sisters, as well as the Fathers, had been expelled from the country. (Wikipedia), Crossroad, 1983, London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1970. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 244 pages + maps. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices. Chronological Table. Bibliography. Index. Bookplate. DJ worn and creased. Ink name and date inside front flyleaf, lower corner front DJ flap clipped. General Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall KCB, CBE, DSO, MC (27 May 1887 - 1985) was a British Army officer and linguist. On the outbreak of World War I Cornwall joined the Intelligence Corps. In 1915 he was appointed to the rank of Captain at 2nd corps headquarters in the Second Army. In 1916 he was promoted to temporary major at the general headquarters of the British expeditionary force, under Sir Douglas Haig. In 1918, Cornwall was head of the MI3 section of the military intelligence directorate, where he remained until the armistice. In 1919, Cornwall was sent to the peace conference in Paris, where he worked with Reginald Leeper and Harold Nicolson on the new boundaries of Europe. Several jobs in the Middle East in the 1920s gave him the opportunity to study Turkish and modern Greek. From 1928 to 1932 he held the post of military attaché in Berlin. In 1934, he was promoted major-general. In 1938, he was promoted to lieutenant-general, in charge of the air defence of Great Britain. In May 1940 he went to France to help evacuate British troops from Cherbourg, boarding the last ship to leave the port. He took over command of III Corps in England in June 1940 holding the post until November 1940. In April 1941 Marshall-Cornwall became General Officer Commanding the British troops in Egypt. . He spent the rest of the war with the Special Operations Executive and MI6. Grant As Military Commander by General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall KCB CBE DSO MC. In 1861, when the Civil War began, Ulysses S. Grant was an ill-paid, somewhat drunken, 38 year-old clerk in the township of Galena, Illinois. Four years later, when he received the surrender of the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee at the historic court house of Appomattox, Grant had established himself as one of the great military commanders of all time. How such a transformation, as extraordinary as any in the annals of generalship, came about, is made clear in this masterly book. he stages in Grant's progress during the War are analyzed with an apparent ease and clarity which disguise an absolute grasp of the subject. A West Point training and active service in the Mexican War meant that, less than a year after joining the Union Army, Grant was already in command of the invasion of Tennessee. Thereafter the milestones in his achievement are marked by some of the most memorable names in the War: Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, The Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg. General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall's approach is illuminating from several points of view. As a student of the Napoleonic campaigns and as the author of military biographies of Massena and of Napoleon himself, Sir James is able to appraise Grant's achievement not merely in the context of the Civil War, but by comparison with the acknowledged masters of strategy and tactics. As a geographer, Sir James (a Past-President of the Royal Geographical Society) is constantly aware of the terrain over which Grant fought and so of the physical considerations by which he was bound. As a serving officer, at every level, in two World Wars, Sir James shows an awareness - not always shared by arm-chair strategists - of what the command of troops and the presence of a resourceful enemy actually entail. Again, Sir James's personal experience of military leadership enables him to analyse sympathetically Grant's relations both with his superiors and with his subordinates. Finally, during his visits to the U.S., Sir James studied on the spot the battlefields with which he is here concerned. General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall analyzes Grant's transformation into one of the great military commanders of all time, by comparison with the acknowledged masters of strategy and tactics, and by his personal experience of military leadership. Ulysses S. Grant, Sir James Marshall-Cornwall believes, was one of the great military commanders of history. Clearly and persuasively this book sets out the grounds on which this conviction is based., B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1970, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good-. 1950. Hardcover. Very small, very shallow dent in front cover's top edge, else very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Contents are clean and unworn. (S 8 B) ; 9" Tall, 387pp. Green cloth, white lettering and white figurehead on front cover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title: " All good wishes Alan Villiers. " Frontispiece b/w photo plus 30p b/w photos. Charts & plans by the author. Glossary. Map Endpapers. TRUE ADVENTURE. An adventurous, lengthy sea voyage, with chapters including: Balinese visit; Through the Sulu Sea; The pirates of Balimbing; TheSolomon Islands; In the cyclone season; Toward Tahiti. Some unopened pages. As a point of interest, it should be noted that the JOSEPH CONRAD is now based at Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut, where she is used as a training vessel. (S - 8-B) (a); 9" Tall; 387 pages; A ., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950, New York: Time-Life Books. Fine. 1991. Reprint. Hardcover. 0809485834 . Originally printed in 1972 by Chatto & Windus. "In her vivid memoir of life in Nazi Germany during the war years, Christabel Bielenberg writes from a unique point of view. A bright young English debutante, the author became a German citizen upon her marriage to German law student Peter Bielenberg in 1934. She did not imagine that soon their two countires would again be deadly enemies..." Ships same or next business day. ; Classics of World War II: The Secret War; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages ., Time-Life Books, 1991, Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1934. Stated Fifth Printing. November, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. About Cape Cod, an island and a cape in the easternmost portion of the State of Massachussets, coexestensive with Barnstable County, including Monomoy Island , Monomoscoy Island, Popponesset Island and Seconsett Island.One of the largest Barrier islands of the world. Descriptive , vintage travel book of : In Search of Cape Cod.... Down The King's Highway....When Summer Comes to the Cape..... The Tales of the Towns - In 22 chapters : Bourne... Sandwich....Barnstable-North Shore...Yamouth..... Dennis.... Brewster.... Orleans.... Eastham... Wellfleet.... Truro.... Provincetown .....Chatham.... Harwich... Barnstable-South Shore...Mashpee... Falmouth. When Summer is Over. Index. With 22 B&W , captioned, glossy, photographic illustrations, on plates, including: The Ship that Fills the Canal....Cranberry Pickers....The Oldest House on the Cape ( The Hoxie House, with " salt box " roof, ca. 1637 )....A Sea Farmer and his Shanty.....The Wreck of the " Wanderer '"...... A Chatham Quahaoger Poles in his Scow, etc. With blue-colored Lighthouse drawing on center of cover of light-colored, cloth book, blue lettering on spine. ( 5 1/4 X 7 5/8 X 1 1/4 ) 367 pages. No dustjacket. Book weighs 1 pound. A 77 year old Cape Cod illustrated travel book in good condition. sku 3061, Little, Brown, And Company, 1934, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Cloth. Very Good/Fair/Good. Volume V is 1934. Blue cloth boards with American Eagle on cover. All in very good condition, all have yellow dust jackets in fair to good condition. No marks or writings, boards and pages clean, binding sound. Dust jackets may have small tears, chipping or mild stains. Volume V is in binder, but by Scribner and Sons and includes years 1933-1941. shipped in box. images upon request., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933, Blue Island Books, [Helston,, 2003]. 8vo., First Edition, with 25 plates on 16; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The author joined the RCN in 1934 and completed his statutory five years' training with the RN aboard a variety of ships including Frobisher, Delhi and Devonshire. Specialising in gunnery, in 1938 he transferred to Canada and served with Restigouche and Ottawa in the Atlantic before his appointment as captain of Iroquois, the RCN's first 'Tribal'. He commanded Iroquois for two years, including much time on the Arctic convoys. At the end of thw war he became gunnery officer of Ontario. Already very scarce., Blue Island Books, [Helston, 2003], Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House, 2013-07-01. paperback. New. Ship out in 2 business day, And Fast shipping, Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Paperback. Pub Date :2013-07-01 Language: Chinese Publisher: Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House has swept the world of the classic comic book : Father and Son Collection ( color Story Edition ) is a German comic artist Erich Auxerre Bo Laoen masterpiece . In 1934. the author under the Berlin Illustrated invitation . began writing comic strip swept the world of the classic comic book : Father and Son Collection ( color Story Edition ) . At this time. his son Christian was only three years old. a... Satisfaction guaranteed,or money back., Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House, 2013-07-01<