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London: Faber and Faber, 2001. First U.K. Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 383, illus., index, DJ slightly worn and soiled: slight edge wear. More
London: Faber and Faber, 2001. First U.K. Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 383, illus., index, DJ slightly worn and soiled: slight edge wear. More
Baton Rouge: Saint John's Press, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xxiv, 698, [6] pages. Illustrations. Photo Section. Glossary. Appendices. Contributors. Bibliography. Index of Proper Names. Maps. Signed by the author on the half-title. Sticker residue on half-title. Cover has small tear at top of spine, some tape, and other wear and soiling. Slightly cocked. "War Stories, Utah Beach to Pleiku," is a collection of the memories of veterans and their service in the 4th Infantry Division. The book covers the period of World War II, The Cold War, and Vietnam--more than thirty-years of rich history from 1940 through 1970. In "War Stories," there are 325 accounts from WWII veterans. In them, they describe their early training as they prepared for a war that they knew was coming, but had no name for. In great detail they portray the bloody assault on Utah Beach, on D-Day, June 6, 1944 and their subsequent fight through the hedgerows of Normandy. They were the first division to enter Paris, and they rightfully lay claim to the honor of liberating that famous city. More
New York: Harper & Row, [1966]. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 532, maps (some fold-out), index, edges soiled. More
New York: Harper & Row, [1966]. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 532, maps, endpaper maps, notes, bibliography, appendix, index, usual library markings, damp stains to bottom edge, DJ soiled rough spots on rear DJ, DJ edges reinforced with tape from the inside. Analyzes major conflicts in Europe, including the Polish Campaign,the Battle of Britain, Sicily, Crete, the Battle of the Bulge, and Normandy. From the Far East, analyzes Corregidor, Leyte Gulf, Tarawa, and Okinawa. More
New York: Harper & Row, [1966]. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 532, maps, endpaper maps, notes, bibliography, appendix, index, DJ somewhat soiled & scuffed, some wear to DJ edges. More
New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1994. Reprint Edition. 25 cm, 532, maps, notes, bibliography, appendix, index, some soiling to rear DJ, some creasing to DJ edges. More
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1989. First Printing. 304, illus., maps, tables, appendix, references, bibliography, index. More
Harisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1989. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 304 p. Illustrations. References. Bibliography. Index. Maps. More
Lausanne: Payot, 1962. Second Edition. First Thus? Printing. 23 cm, 813 total, wraps, 2-volume set, maps (some fold-out), bibliography, index, usual library markings, covers worn, soiled, creased, & sm tears. More
New York: Viking, 2006. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxviii, 401 p. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Sources. Index. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 192, illus., maps, glossary, DJ flap creased. More
New York, NY: Forge, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2003. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 304 p. Illustrations. More
New York: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 304 pages. Illustrations. Includes Acknowledgments, as well as Childhood and Early Years; West Point; Fort Sill/Fort Sam Houston/ Fort Knox; 1942 Stateside; Casablanca; Tunisia; Sicily; England; Getting Ready; June 6, 1944; Normandy; Breakout and the Race Across France; Stalled; To the Ardennes; To the Elbe; The Ending; Also includes Childhood and Early Years; West Point; Fort Sill/Fort Sam Houston/ and Fort Know/ 1942 Stateside/ Casablanca/ Tunisia/ Sicily/ England/ Getting Ready/ June 6, 1944/ Normandy/ Breakout and the Race Across France/ Stalled; To the Ardennes; To the Elbe; and The Ending. Donald Vivian Bennett (May 9, 1915 – November 28, 2005) retired as a four-star general from the United States Army in 1974. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1940. Bennett then served overseas in World War II in North Africa, Sicily, and in the invasion of the European continent. On 6 June 1944, Lieutenant Colonel Bennett, along with the 62nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion which he commanded, landed with the second wave on D-Day. His party was subjected to a tremendous fire which inflicted 50 percent casualties. Observing that following units were pinned down on the beach, he assembled and reorganized the infantry assault companies, four tanks, and an antiaircraft unit. By redistributing the remaining officers and equipment he organized a sizable force and successfully assaulted the ridge. Lieutenant Colonel Bennett, in disregarding his own safety under such heavy enemy fire throughout the day, contributed to the establishment of the beachhead. More
New York: Quill, [1987], c1985. 1st Quill Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 588, wraps, illus., footnotes, bookplate residue on front endpaper, crease in rear cover Story of Matthew Ridgway, the development of airborne warfare, and his command of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions in World War II. The emphasis is on the battlefield, including Salerno, Naples, Anzio, Normandy,Market-Garden, Ardennes, and the crossing of the Rhine. More
New York: Random House, 1994. 50th Anniv. Edition. First Printing. 140, illus., endpaper maps, index, DJ slightly worn and soiled. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 494, [2] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Sources and Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. This is a gripping account of an exceptional man - Jim Gavin, America's best paratrooper leader throughout WWII. During Operation Market Garden, Gavin wrote a new chapter in paratrooper heroism, seizing all his objectives despite a serious spinal injury on landing. The first comprehensive biography of James M. Gavin profiles the heroic general who led the famous 82nd Airborne Division during World War II and who later worked at the Pentagon and served as ambassador to France under President Kennedy. First printing was reportedly limited to only 20,000 copies. T. Michael Booth was a former paratrooper and Green Beret. A graduate of Yale, he knew General Gavin for a period of time before the Generals death and had his encouragement to produce this biography. Duncan Spencer was the author or coauthor of numerous books, among them Paratrooper and Conversations with the Enemy (which was a nonfiction finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He was a veteran journalist who had worked for The Washington Star and had been a columnist for Roll Call. More
Paris: Librairie Polytechnique, [1964]. 19 cm, 221, illus., maps (1 color fold-out), index, heavily underlined and marginal notes, two tickets on front endpaper with ink note. More
Norwich: Wensum Books (Norwich) Ltd., 1977. 31 cm, 120, wraps, illus., maps, erasure residue on cover and title page. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 618 pages. Illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendices, glossary, index, front board weak, frontis illus. mostly detached. Inscribed by author. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1951. First Edition. 618, illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendices, glossary, index, ink note on page i, DJ from Book Club edition but book is 1st Ed. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xv, [1], 419, [2] p. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1993. Second printing [stated] No price on DJ but appears to be a trade edition. Hardcover. x, [4], 263, [9] pages. Some edge soiling. Includes 28 chapters, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Includes 8 black and white maps, and a Photo Essay following page 108. William B. Breuer (September 17, 1922 – August 18, 2010) was a soldier, journalist and American military historian, who specialized in the World War II epoch. He was the author of more than twenty-six books, ten of which have been main selections of the Military Book Club. Despite the mighty invasion force the Americans and British mustered in England in early 1944, a top Allied general warned: If the Germans have even a 48-hour advance notice of the time and place of the Normandy landings, we could suffer a monstrous catastrophe! Adolf Hitler planned to inflict such a massive bloodbath on the invaders that the Allies would agree to a negotiated peace with Nazi Germany. Hoodwinking Hitler is an action-packed, you-are-there account about a colossal and incredibly intricate deception scheme created and implemented by ingenious and diabolical minds, machinations intended to bamboozle the Germans on true Allied invasion plans. The global chicanery included electronic spoofing, double agents, diplomatic deceit, whispering campaigns, femmes fatales, camouflage, strategic feints, the French underground, murder plots, phony military installations, misleading bombing raids, sabotage, propaganda, traps, fake codes, and kidnap schemes. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies gained total surprise, mostly because of what Winston Churchill called the greatest hoax in history. Ultimate Allied victory in Europe was assured. More
New York, N.Y. Bulfinch Press, 2004. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. [8], 185 pages. Oversized volume, measuring 10 inches by 8-1/4 inches. 116 b/w photographs. Includes two Audio Recordings, with oral histories from D-Day veterans which correspond to chapters in the book, bound in front of the front free endpaper. Book includes endpaper maps at the front and back. Includes chapters on The Call to Arms and Gathering for D-Day; Launching the Attack; The Battlefield Isolated: Help from the Resistance and the SO; Dropping from the Skies: The British Attack on the East Flank; Over the Atlantic Wall; The American Airborne Drop on the Cotentin Peninsula; Crossing the Channel: The Air and Sea Armadas; Utah Beach; The Rangers at the Pointe; The 16th Regiment at Omaha Beach; The 116th Regiment: Into the Jaws of Hell; The British 2nd Army, at Gold, Juno, and Sword Beaches; and The Aftermath. Also includes Illustrations, Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Glossary, and Photo Credits. Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is the history commentator for CNN, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. Brinkley worked closely with his mentor, historian Stephen E. Ambrose, then director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. Ambrose chose Brinkley to become director of the Eisenhower Center, a post he held for five years before moving to Tulane University. More
New York: Random House, 1998. First Printing. 412, illus., index, stray ink mark on front DJ, photograph of the author laid in. More
New York: Dell Publishing, 2001. First Paperbk Printing. 412, wraps, illus., index, slight wear/creasing to cover edgesThe generation who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II. Among those interviewed are George Bush, Ben Bradlee, Art Buchwald, Andy Rooney, Julia Child, Robert Dole, and Arthur Schlesinger. More