The theory of semirings with applications in mathematics and theoretical computer science. First published. [= Pitman Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics 54].

Golan, Jonathan S.

ISBN 10: 0582078555 / ISBN 13: 9780582078550

Published by Harlow - New York Longman Scientific & Technical - John Wiley & Sons, 1992

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Original-Pappband mit Rückenvergoldung und Original-Schutzumschlag; Gr. 8°; xiv 318 (4) Seiten. Sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch Pitman Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics ; 54. 710 gr.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The theory of semirings with applications in mathematics and theoretical computer science. First published. [= Pitman Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics 54].
• Publisher: Harlow - New York Longman Scientific & Technical - John Wiley & Sons
• Publication Date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0582078555
• ISBN 13: 9780582078550
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 710 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mathematik

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Synopsis

"Spite House" is the remarkable true story of two Marines -- a hunter and his prey. Pvt. Robert Garwood was a jeep driver for a Marine Intelligence unit when he was taken captive by the Vietcong in 1965, ten days before his tour of duty ended. Col. Tom McKenney was a member of a clandestine team of "hunter-shooters" assigned to seek out and terminate American traitors -- and a missing private named Garwood was designated as one of his prime targets. In this incredible real-life account, Monika Jensen-Stevenson exposes one of the cruelest covert operations and cover-ups of the war, and pleads an eloquent case for the innocence of Bobby Garwood, who was finally returned to his country -- more than six years after the last American POW had been allegedly released -- to face not a hero's welcome, but unfounded accusations of treachery and collusion, a court-martial and disgrace.

Review

This book uses impressive spadework to tell the story of what its subtitle calls "the last secret of the war in Vietnam," namely, what really happened in the case of Marine Private Bobby Garwood, the last soldier to return from the war alive. He returned in 1979, after 14 years missing in action. Jensen-Stevenson, a former Sixty Minutes producer, managed to get on the record people who have spent years staying off it: several well-placed military intelligence figures and Garwood (court-martialed for consorting with the enemy upon his return) himself. The main contentions of the book are that Garwood didn't desert but was captured after a firefight, that despite the sorts of lapses that virtually all Vietnam POWs fell prey to from time to time, he remained a loyal American throughout an incredibly arduous captivity, and most explosively of all: that before his return, based on the idea that he was a defector, there was an organized effort by U.S. forces to assassinate him. Readers will conclude that the Garwood case needs re-opening.