High Endeavor: The Life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman
London: Leo Cooper, 1993. First? Edition. First? Printing. 164, illus., index. More
London: Leo Cooper, 1993. First? Edition. First? Printing. 164, illus., index. More
New York: Dutton, c1990. First Printing. 25 cm, 493, maps, gift inscription from a former Marine on the flyleaf. More
London: Hale, 1975. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 192, illus., pencil erasure on front endpaper, front DJ flap price clipped. More
Place_Pub: Dover, DE: Cherokee Books, 2005. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. 303, pages. Wraps, illus., maps, date stamped on bottom edge, covers somewhat creased, worn, and soiled. Signed by the author. More
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1955. Fifth Printing. 767, map, bibliography, ink notation ins fr flylf, bds & spine faded & discolored, small dirt smudges in margins of a few pages. More
New York: Random House, c1994. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 276, acid-free paper, illus., small tear to DJ, rear DJ somewhat wrinkled, publisher's ephemera laid in, including author's photo. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1947. 317, illus., discoloration inside boards, pages have darkened, spine wrinkled, boards scuffed. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1985. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 356 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Chronology. Notes. Sources. Appendices. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve with slight wear and soiling. The author was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. The author also has an M.B.A. from Syracuse University. He served as an infantry company commander during the Korean War, were he was seriously wounded and was awarded the Silver Star. He was then assigned as military assistant to the Army's chief historian and worked with a team of professional historians on the writing and production of the U.S. Army's multi-volume series on World War II. The author's father died while a prisoner of the Japanese. In 1977 he visited the sites of several of the larger POW camps in the Philippines and research the voyage of the unmarked Japanese ship Oryoku Maru, taking back to Japan the last of the POWs, most of whom were officers. The author's father was on that ship. More
Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1965. 397, frontis illus., index, DJ scuffed and soiled: some wear along edges of DJ. More
[Toronto]: University of Toronto Press, [c1965]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 397, illus., front DJ flap price clipped. More
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998. First Printing. 24 cm, 495, map, references, index, sticker residue to DJ. More
Canton, OH: Daring Books, c1987. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 336, illus., maps, glossary. More
Canton, OH: Daring Books, c1987. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 336, illus., maps, glossary of military terms, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted to boards. More
Chicago, IL: Nelson-Hall, c1975. First Paperbk? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 215, wraps. More
Seattle, WA: Open Hand Publishing Inc., 1989. First Edition. First? Printing. 146, illus., map, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears/chips. More
New York: Stein and Day, 1979. 24 cm, 338, illus., usual library markings. More
New York: Walker and Company, 1968. 614, footnotes, appendix, glossary, chronology, bibliography, index, some wear and tears to DJ edges, crease in front DJ. More
Baltimore, MD: American Literary Press, 2007. Heritage Spec. Edition. 29 cm, 300 pages. Illus. (many in color). Signed by the author. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. 304, illus., endpaper maps, DJ edges somewhat worn and small tears. Inscribed by the author. More
London: Hollis & Carter, 1949. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 317, usual library markings, boards somewhat worn and soiled, spine somewhat faded. More
Wilmington, DE: SR Books, c1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 286, maps. More
Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 24 cm. , xxiii, [3], 300, [2] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Map. Appendixes. Sources. Index. Robert Sherman LaForte was Professor Emeritus of history at North Texas University. La Forte joined the history faculty in 1968 and served as chair of the department, retiring in 1998. He established the UNT archives in 1975. La Forte co-wrote several books about World War II — Remembering Pearl Harbor: Eyewitness Accounts by U.S. Military Men and Women, Building the Death Railway: The Ordeal of American POWs in Burma, 1942-45 and With Only the Will to Live: Accounts of Americans in Japanese Prison Camps, 1941-45 — as well as an authorized history of UNT’s first 100 years, Down the Corridor of Years: A Centennial History of the University of North Texas in Photographs, 1890-1990. In 1994, he received the ’Fessor Graham Award, which students give to outstanding faculty members. He earned a doctorate from the University of Kansas. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1956. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. 274, illus., map, some yellow highlighting to text. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. 274, illus., map, slight soiling to rear DJ. More
New York: P. J. Kenedy, [1955]. 21 cm, 249, illus., DJ worn and soiled, small tears to DJ edges, edges soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More