American Guerrilla in the Philippines
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945. 299, map, bookplate inside 2nd front flyleaf, boards and spine somewhat soiled, some wear to edges of boards and spine. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945. 299, map, bookplate inside 2nd front flyleaf, boards and spine somewhat soiled, some wear to edges of boards and spine. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945. 301, map, slight discoloration inside boards, bds & spine somewhat soiled, some wear to edges of spine. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945. 223, map, slight discoloration inside boards, bookplate inside rear bd, some wear to edges of spine and corners of boards. More
New York: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1946. Presumed First U. K. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 184 pages. Frontis map. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Ira Wolfert (November 1, 1908 – November 24, 1997) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and writer. In 1930, he graduated from the Columbia University School of Journalism with a bachelor's degree. In 1941, he was aboard the Surcouf when it helped to liberate Saint Pierre and Miquelon. His series of articles about the November 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal won him the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting. In 1944, Wolfert co-wrote One man Air Force with Captain Don Gentile, a leading fighter ace. The book is an autobiography of Gentile and details his exploits as a fighter pilot flying P-51 Mustangs with the Eighth Air Force. He wrote non-fiction, including the 1943 bestselling eyewitness account Battle for the Solomons and the 1945 American Guerrilla in the Philippines, which recounts the exploits of Navy officer Iliff David Richardson and was made into a 1950 film, starring Tyrone Power. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. Hardcover. 200 pages, color endpaper maps, edges of DJ have been reinforced with tape, name of former owner written inside front board. The Solomon Islands campaign was a major campaign of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign began with Japanese landings and occupation of several areas in the British Solomon Islands and Bougainville, in the Territory of New Guinea, during the first six months of 1942. The Japanese occupied these locations and began the construction of several naval and air bases with the goals of protecting the flank of the Japanese offensive in New Guinea, establishing a security barrier for the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain, and providing bases for interdicting supply lines between the Allied powers of the United States and Australia and New Zealand. The Allies, to defend their communication and supply lines in the South Pacific, supported a counteroffensive in New Guinea, isolated the Japanese base at Rabaul, and counterattacked the Japanese in the Solomons with landings on Guadalcanal and small neighboring islands on 7 August 1942. These landings initiated a series of combined-arms battles between the two adversaries, beginning with the Guadalcanal landing and continuing with several battles in the central and northern Solomons, on and around New Georgia Island, and Bougainville Island. In a campaign of attrition fought on land, on sea, and in the air, the Allies wore the Japanese down, inflicting irreplaceable losses on Japanese military assets. The Allies retook some of the Solomon Islands (although resistance continued until the end of the war), and they also isolated and neutralized some Japanese positions, which were then bypassed. The Solomon Islands campaign then converged with the New Guinea campaign. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. 200, color endpaper maps, DJ worn and stained: small tear at spine, small pieces missing. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. Second Printing. 244, illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendix, index, spine faded, boards somewhat worn, some wrinkling to cloth on front cover. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987. Book Club Edition. 468, illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, slight soiling fore-edge, DJ edges worn and small tears. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987. 468, illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982. Second Printing. 257, illus., maps, endpaper maps, glossary, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, very slight wear to DJ edges. More
Fairfield, IA: Sunstar Publishing, Ltd., 1995. First Edition. First? Printing. 275, some pages soiled, DJ badly scuffed at rear (part of text gone), small tear in front DJ, edges soiled. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991. First Printing. 187, illus., appendices, note on sources, index, small rough spot & red ink number inside front flyleaf, DJ worn along edges. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. Second Printing. 433, appendix, index, usual library markings, pages have darkened, DJ in plastic sleeve. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. 433 pages. Appendix, index, pages somewhat darkened, DJ worn, stained, and creased: large piece missing at bottom of DJ spine. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. 433, appendix, index, few library markings, front board weak, binding cracked at p. 86, boards quite stained. More
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1977. First Printing. Quarto, 208, profusely illus. (some in color), map, bibliography, index, some wear to edges of spine and corners of boards. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1949. Wraps. 189 pages, wraps, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, covers scuffed & worn, spine has been inelegantly repaired with masking tape. More
New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. Reprint Edition. 189, reprint of 1949 edition, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography. More