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Storm over Leyte: The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy

By John Prados

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Hardcover:

9780451473615 | New Amer Library, July 5, 2016, cover price $28.00

The Us Special Forces: What Everyone Needs to Know

By John Prados

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Hardcover:

9780199354283 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 3, 2015, cover price $74.00

9780415900867, titled "Philosophical Foundations of Health Education" | Routledge, May 1, 1990, cover price $39.95 | also contains Philosophical Foundations of Health Education

9780415900881, titled "The Teacher: Theory and Practice in Teacher Education" | Routledge, December 1, 1989, cover price $48.00 | also contains The Teacher: Theory and Practice in Teacher Education

Paperback:

9780199354290 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 3, 2015, cover price $16.95

The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power

By John Prados

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Hardcover:

9780292737624 | Univ of Texas Pr, September 15, 2013, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9780292762152 | Updated edition (Univ of Texas Pr, September 1, 2014), cover price $19.95

Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun

By John Prados

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Hardcover:

9780451238047 | 1 edition (New Amer Library, October 2, 2012), cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780451414823 | Reprint edition (New Amer Library, October 1, 2013), cover price $17.00

Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975

Product Description: The Vietnam war continues to be the focus of intense controversy. While most people—liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, historians, pundits, and citizens alike—agree that the United States did not win the war, a vocal minority argue the opposite or debate why victory never came, attributing the quagmire to everything from domestic politics to the press...read more

By John Prados

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9780700616343 | Univ Pr of Kansas, April 21, 2009, cover price $39.95

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9780700619405 | Univ Pr of Kansas, September 3, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Vietnam war continues to be the focus of intense controversy.

Normandy Crucible: The Decisive Battle That Shaped World War II in Europe

Product Description: The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen. It was also the crucible of combat tactics and logistic techniques that would decide the outcome of World War II...The Battle of Normandy began on D-Day...read more

By John Prados

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9780451233837 | 1 edition (New Amer Library, July 5, 2011), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A military intelligence expert examines the most formative battle of World War II.

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9780451236944 | Reprint edition (New Amer Library, July 3, 2012), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen.

How the Cold War Ended: Debating and Doing History

Product Description: The Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy...read more

By John Prados

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9781597971744 | Potomac Books Inc, December 30, 2010, cover price $60.00

9780152026400, titled "Rip's Secret Spot" | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 2000, cover price $10.95 | also contains Rip''s Secret Spot | About this edition: When Pat, Mom, and Dad mysteriously lose some of their things, the family dog helps find them.

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9781597971751 | Potomac Books Inc, December 30, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century.

William Colby and the CIA: The Secret Wars of a Controversial Spymaster

By John Prados

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9780700616909 | Univ Pr of Kansas, October 8, 2009, cover price $19.95

Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA

A history of the CIA, told through an analysis of its contributions to U.S. policy and key historical events, describes its covert operations as they specifically supported the nation's global quest for democratic values and institutions, in an account that draws on three decades of research and discusses the president's and Congress's efforts to control CIA decisions. BOMC, History.

By John Prados

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9781566635745 | Ivan R Dee, October 1, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A history of the CIA, told through an analysis of its contributions to U.

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9781566638234 | Ivan R Dee, February 15, 2009, cover price $27.95

The Central Intelligence Agency: Security Under Scrutiny

Discusses the history, organization, activities, controversies, and key events and people of the Central Intelligence Agency.

By Richard Immerman (editor), Loch Johnson (editor), Kathryn Olmsted (editor), John Prados (editor) and Athan G. Theoharis (editor)

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9780313332821 | Greenwood Pub Group, December 30, 2005, cover price $87.00 | About this edition: Discusses the history, organization, activities, controversies, and key events and people of the Central Intelligence Agency.

White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on the President

Product Description: Never-before-heard recordings of secretly taped oval office conversations with eight US presidents. The President doesn't know the position of the administration so you can't know it.President Lyndon Johnson to Walt Rostow on Vietnam policy, March 4, 1964 Historian John Prados and The New Press have procured recordings made by eight Presidents of their oval office conversations...read more

By John Prados (editor)

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9781565848528 | Har/com edition (New Pr, October 1, 2005), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Never-before-heard recordings of secretly taped oval office conversations with eight US presidents.

Inside the Pentagon Papers

Product Description: Inside the Pentagon Papers addresses legal and moral issues that resonate today as debates continue over government secrecy and democracy's requisite demand for truthfully informed citizens. In the process, it also shows how a closer study of this signal event can illuminate questions of government responsibility in any era...read more

By Margaret Pratt Porter (editor) and John Prados (editor)

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9780700613250 | Univ Pr of Kansas, May 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The consequences of the leak made to the press about the secret government study on the Vietnam War and the subsequent litigation are reexamined in a study that focuses on the issue of government secrecy and the public's right to know.

Paperback:

9780700614233 | Univ Pr of Kansas, September 15, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Inside the Pentagon Papers addresses legal and moral issues that resonate today as debates continue over government secrecy and democracy's requisite demand for truthfully informed citizens.

Operation Vulture

The author blows the lid off a major Cold War secret--the U.S. proposal to intervene in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu on the side of the French, a move that would have brought U.S. troops into Southeast Asia ten years earlier. Reprint.

By John Prados

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9780743486729 | Reprint edition (Ibooks, July 1, 2004), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The author blows the lid off a major Cold War secret--the U.

9780743444903 | Reprint edition (Ibooks, August 1, 2002), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The author blows the lid off a major Cold War secret--the U.

Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War

Product Description: In America, the wife of the former ambassador who exposed George Bush’s sixteen-word State of the Union fib about uranium from Niger, is now being harassed by allies of the administration. In Britain, the scientist who blew the whistle on Tony Blair has been driven to suicide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781565849310 | New Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In America, the wife of the former ambassador who exposed George Bush’s sixteen-word State of the Union fib about uranium from Niger, is now being harassed by allies of the administration.

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9781565849020 | New Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A noted historian breaks down the facts of the Bush administration's reasons for going to war in Iraq and, with the aid of actual source documents and intelligence reports, exposes the elaborate deception perpetrated on the American people and the world.

9780756787653 | Diane Pub Co, January 30, 2004, cover price $18.00

Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh

Product Description: Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the siege of Khe Sanh when first published in hardcover in 1991, this book tells the whole incredible story of one of the most pivotal and bloody battles of the Vietnam War. Historian John Prados and Khe Sanh survivor Ray Stubbe recount the brutal seventy-seven days of combat and present the larger political context that formed the all-important backdrop to the events on the battlefield in 1968...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Prados and Ray W. Stubbe

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9780395550038 | Houghton Mifflin, December 1, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Draws on secret United States government records, personal letters, diaries, and eyewitness accounts to divulge the true story of the crucial Vietnam battle of Khe Sanh

Paperback:

9781591146964 | Naval Inst Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the siege of Khe Sanh when first published in hardcover in 1991, this book tells the whole incredible story of one of the most pivotal and bloody battles of the Vietnam War.

9780440213451 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, January 1, 1993), cover price $6.50 | also contains Amazing Animal Communicators

Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby

Product Description: From his years as America's point man in Vietnam to his mysterious death in 1996, William Colby was one of the most enigmatic figures of the Cold War. Whether it was in CIA oper's. against Russia, anti-Communism in W. Europe, covert action in SE Asia, or its involvement in the Watergate affair, Colby stood at the center of the agency's secret activities...read more

By John Prados

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9780756790943 | Diane Pub Co, September 30, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: From his years as America's point man in Vietnam to his mysterious death in 1996, William Colby was one of the most enigmatic figures of the Cold War.

9780195128475 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An account of one of the nation's most controversial CIA directors looks back on a life spent fighting Communism, from his salad days in the OSS to his involvement in the Phoenix program in Vietnam and the Indonesian coup of 1965.

America Confronts Terrorism: Understanding the Danger and How to Think About It : A Documentary Record

Offers documents from various sources that describe the growing awareness of the threat of terrorism, terrorist views and methods, attacks on American interests abroad in the 1990s, and the response of the United States. (view table of contents)

By John Prados (editor)

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9781566634441 | Ivan R Dee, April 1, 2002, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Offers documents from various sources that describe the growing awareness of the threat of terrorism, terrorist views and methods, attacks on American interests abroad in the 1990s, and the response of the United States.

Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II

Reveals the contribution of American codebreakers and intelligence analysts in the U.S. victory over Japan during World War II (view table of contents)

By John Prados

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9780679437017 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 1995), cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Reveals the contribution of American codebreakers and intelligence analysts in the U.

Paperback:

9781557504319 | 1 edition (Naval Inst Pr, November 1, 2001), cover price $27.95

The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War

Product Description: "Enormously illuminating. . . . John Prados can lead a reader, from the battle buff to the expert, through the series of campaigns near the DMZ and along Route 9 better than any other author I have read. . . . His understanding of the decision-making process in Hanoi is nuanced and sophisticated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780471254652 | Reprint edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 1, 1998), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Examining memoirs, oral histories, and official documents from both sides, the author paints a vivid portrait of the infamous 'Ho Chi Minh' trail used to smuggle troops and supplies into South Vietnam.

Paperback:

9780471379454 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 20, 2000, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: "Enormously illuminating.

The Hidden History of the Vietnam War

Product Description: The United States could have won the war in Vietnam if only President Lyndon Johnson had let his air generals do what they wanted...if only we had intervened massively...if only we had pursued our campaign against the Viet Cong infrastructure...read more

By John Prados

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9781566630795 | Ivan R Dee, May 1, 1995, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Reexamines key strategies, events, and individuals in the history of the Vietnam War, and discusses South Vietnamese politics, body counts, air power, communications intelligence, and the roles of Presidents Johnson and Nixon

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9781566631976 | Ivan R Dee, April 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The United States could have won the war in Vietnam if only President Lyndon Johnson had let his air generals do what they wanted.

Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II Through the Persian Gulf

By John Prados

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9781566631082 | Rev sub edition (Ivan R Dee, April 1, 1996), cover price $26.90

Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush

Product Description: 20th century; General; Government; History; National security; National Security Council (U.S.); Non-Fiction; Political Science; United States

By John Prados

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9780688073978 | William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Discusses Eisenhower's Gordon Gray and Robert Cutler, Kennedy's crisis managers, Johnson's management of Vietnam, and Henry Kissinger's role in the Nixon administration

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9780688116057 | Reprint edition (Quill, May 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: 20th century; General; Government; History; National security; National Security Council (U.

Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA & Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II Through Iranscam

Traces the history of postwar American secret operations, assesses their effectiveness, and discusses the Iran-Contra Affair

By John Prados

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9780688077594, titled "Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA & Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II Through Iranscam" | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1988, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of postwar American secret operations, assesses their effectiveness, and discusses the Iran-Contra Affair

Pentagon Games: Wargames and the American Military

Product Description: Includes 3 games: DRV, Last Days of Saigon, and Pentagon.

By John Prados

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9780060961305 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Includes 3 games: DRV, Last Days of Saigon, and Pentagon.

The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Intelligence Analysis and Soviet Strategic Forces

By John Prados

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Hardcover:

9780691076850 | Reissue edition (Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1986), cover price $55.00

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