New York: Weybright And Talley, 1972. Book Club Edition [stated on Dust Jacket]. Hardcover. [6], 375 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Mailing label of previous owner on fep. DJ has substantial wear, tears, chips and soiling. Slightly cocked. Edwin Palmer Hoyt (August 5, 1923 – July 29, 2005) was an American writer who specialized in military history. Until 1958, Hoyt worked in news media, after which he produced non-fiction works. In 1943, Hoyt's father, then the editor and publisher of The Oregonian, was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as the director of the Domestic Branch, Office of War Information. The younger Hoyt served with the Office of War Information during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. In 1945 and 1946, he served as a foreign correspondent for The Denver Post and the United Press, reporting from locations in China, Thailand, Burma, India, the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, and Korea. Edwin Hoyt subsequently worked as an ABC broadcaster, covering the 1948 revolution in Czechoslovakia and the Arab-Israeli conflict. From 1949 to 1951, he was the editor of the editorial page at The Denver Post. He was an associate editor of Collier's Weekly in New York from 1955 to 1956. In 1957 he was a television producer and writer-director at CBS. Starting in 1958, Hoyt became a full-time writer, and for a few years he served as a lecturer at the University of Hawaii. In the 40 years since his first publication in 1960, he published nearly 200 works. Hoyt wrote about 20 novels (many published under the pseudonyms Christopher Martin and Cabot L. Forbes), but most of his works are biographies and other non-fiction, with a heavy emphasis on WWII military history. More