Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 522, illus., endpaper maps, chronology, footnotes, index, boards scuffed, discoloration inside boards. More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. First Edition. 522, illus., endpaper maps, chron, footnotes, index, boards scuffed, slight discoloration inside bds, ink name inside 2nd fr flyleaf. More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 522 pages. Endpaper maps. The dust jacket has some wear, tears, soiling and chips. Lucius Dubignon Clay (23 April 1898 – 16 April 1978) was a senior officer of the United States Army who was known for his administration of occupied Germany after World War II. He served as the deputy to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1945; deputy military governor, Germany, in 1946; Commander in Chief, United States Forces in Europe and military governor of the United States Zone, Germany, from 1947 to 1949. Clay orchestrated the Berlin Airlift (1948–1949) when the USSR blockaded West Berlin. By March 1942, Clay had risen to the position of being the youngest brigadier general in the army, a month short of his 44th birthday. All the while, he had acquired a reputation for bringing order and operational efficiency out of chaos, and for being an exceptionally hard and disciplined worker. Clay was promoted to lieutenant general on 17 April 1945 and to general on 17 March 1947. Clay heavily influenced US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes' September 1946 speech in Stuttgart, Germany. The speech, "Restatement of Policy on Germany," marked the transition in American occupation policy to one of economic reconstruction. On 15 March 1947, Clay succeeded Joseph T. McNarney as military governor (or "high commissioner") of the US zone of occupied Germany—the head of the "Office of Military Government, United States." Clay's responsibilities covered a wide spectrum of social issues related to Germany's recovery from the war in addition to strictly military issues. More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 83, cover spotted. More