War Memoirs: Unity, 1942-1944
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First Printing. 378, endpaper maps, index, pencil underlining and notes on several pages, usual library markings, some spotting and wear to spine. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First Printing. 378, endpaper maps, index, pencil underlining and notes on several pages, usual library markings, some spotting and wear to spine. More
London, England: Amber Books, 2017. Later Edition, First Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 448 pages. Oversized book, measuring 9 inches by 11-3/4 inches. Includes Introduction, Maps and Index. Throughout history, there have been numerous climactic battles that have reshaped history. This work examines a selection of these seminal encounters, bringing alive the reality of the participants' experiences while exploring the profound impact these battles exerted upon subsequent events. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. This is a highly informative, richly illustrated guide to more than 45 of history's most significant battles, including Megiddo, Marathon, Alesia, Hastings, Nagashino, Yorktown, Waterloo, Gettysburg, Tsushima, Verdun, Stalingrad, the Tet Offensive, Iraqi Freedom, and many more. The book features clear, full-color tactical maps for each battle, showing at a glance the dispositions and movements of the opposing forces. For each entry, a quick reference panel provides essential details on the battle's date, location, key players, troops, and outcome. More
New York: Seaver Books, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 284, illus., shaken, hinges a little sprung, publisher's ephemera (including black and white photograph of author) laid in. More
New York: Crown Publishers, c1976. First? Printing. 24 cm, 336, illus., endpaper maps, appendix, index, DJ edges frayed with small tears. More
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, c1976. First? Printing. 24 cm, 336, illus., endpaper maps, appendix, index, rear DJ scratched, DJ edges worn & small chips. More
New York: William Morrow, 1994. Fifth Printing. Trade paperback. 416, wraps, tables, Timeline. Recommended Reading. Index. Contains more than 300 separate items. The book exposes the dark, irreverent, misunderstood, and often tragicomic aspects of military operations during World War II. James F. Dunnigan (born 8 August 1943) is an author, military-political analyst, Defense and State Department consultant, and wargame designer currently living in New York City. Dunnigan regularly lectures at military and academic institutions, such as the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, in Newport, Rhode Island. Albert A. Nofi (born January 6, 1944), is an American military historian, defense analyst, and designer of board and computer wargaming systems. In 1999 Nofi became a research analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses, where he worked with game theorist Peter P. Perla. Nofi was the CNA field representative to the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, in Newport, Rhode Island, from 2001 until mid-2005, before returning to CNA. More
London: Collins, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Endpaper maps. 319, [1] pages. Illustrations (all listed are present). Cover has some wear and soiling. Corners somewhat bumped. Some spine fading. Commander Kenneth Edwards was a distinguished naval historian. As a young man he was awarded the DSC in April 1917 for ‘Performing good service at the landing and at the evacuation of Helles. Set a fine example to his men whilst assisting at salvage operations on Monitor M.30 under fire from enemy's guns.’ He wrote numerous books of which his best-selling book was based on life in a Royal Navy submarine, We Dive at Dawn. From an oil-pipeline laid across the English Channel sea-bed to the huge concrete Mulberry Harbors towed across to France, Operation Neptune was a logistical exercise without precedence. Following the Normandy landings of June 1944, huge amounts of matériel needed to be transported to the fighting armies. Neptune was a complex undertaking of unheard of complexity. Its importance is usually overlooked. More
New York: Random House, 1986. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxvii, [1], 977, [3] pages. Principal Figures. Glossary. Bibliography. Notes. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and has some wear, tears and soiling. Some edge soiling. Some endpaper soiling. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To Doug Romagnoli, With best wishes for a full life. David Eisenhower October 11, 1986. This book focuses on Eisenhower's conduct of the war and provides an extensively documented analysis of the political ramifications of the course of the war and Eisenhower's decisions. Dwight David Eisenhower II (born March 31, 1948) is an American author, public policy fellow, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and eponym of the U.S. presidential retreat Camp David. He is the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, and a son-in-law of President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon. He was a teaching adjunct and public policy fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, author, and co-chair of the Foreign Policy Research Institute's History Institute for Teachers. From 2001 to 2003, he was editor of Orbis, a quarterly published by the institute. Eisenhower was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1987 for his work Eisenhower At War, 1943-1945 about the Allied leadership during World War II. He was the host of a public television series called The Whole Truth with David Eisenhower, distributed by American Public Television. More
New York: Random House, c1986. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 977, maps, glossary, bibliography, notes, index, small tear at top of DJ spine. More
New York: Random House, c1986. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 977, maps, glossary, bibliography, notes, index, usual library markings, rough spots inside bds, some wear to DJ edges. More
New York: Random House, c1986. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 977, maps, glossary, bibliography, notes, index, usual library markings, rough spots & small stains inside bds, bds scuffed. More
New York: Vintage Books, c1987. First Vintage Edition. First Printing. 977, wraps, maps, glossary, bibliography, notes, index, front cover and several pages creased, some wear to cover edges ink numbers inside front flyleaf. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 559, [1] pages. Endpaper map. , Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices, Glossary of Military Code Names. Index. Minor wear to top & bottom of spine. Minor soiling to cover. Dwight Eisenhower, during World War II, became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front. After the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff (1945–1948), as president of Columbia University (1948–1953) and as the first Supreme Commander of NATO (1951–1952). Crusade in Europe is a book of wartime memoirs by General Dwight D. Eisenhower published by Doubleday in 1948. Maps were provided by Rafael Palacios. Crusade in Europe is a personal account by one of the senior military figures of World War II. It recounts his appointment by General George Marshall to plan the defense of the Philippines and continues to describe his appointment to, and execution of, the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Northern Europe. The book was dictated by Eisenhower to Kenneth McCormick of Doubleday and Joseph Fels Barnes, former foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. It was revised by Eisenhower's aide Kevin McCann. More
London: William Heinemann Limited, 1948. First U.K. Edition. 582, illus., maps, color endpaper maps, footnotes, appendices, glossary, index, spine and cover edges faded, spine spotted. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. Book Club Edition [Book of the Month Club selection]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 559, [1] pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices, Glossary of Military Code Names. Index. Pages slightly darkened. Some wear to top & bottom of spine. Some soiling to cover. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Four page, illustrated insert on the book and how it was written laid in. Dwight Eisenhower, during World War II, became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front. After the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff (1945–1948), as president of Columbia University (1948–1953) and as the first Supreme Commander of NATO (1951–1952). Crusade in Europe is a book of wartime memoirs by General Dwight D. Eisenhower published by Doubleday in 1948. Maps were provided by Rafael Palacios. Crusade in Europe is a personal account by one of the senior military figures of World War II. It recounts his appointment by General George Marshall to plan the defense of the Philippines and continues to describe his appointment to, and execution of, the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Northern Europe. The book was dictated by Eisenhower to Kenneth McCormick of Doubleday and Joseph Fels Barnes, former foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. It was revised by Eisenhower's aide Kevin McCann. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. Later printing. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 559, [1] pages. Endpaper map. , Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices, Glossary of Military Code Names. Index. Ex-library with usual library markings. Some ink notations observed. Some wear to top & bottom of spine. Some soiling to cover. Dwight Eisenhower, during World War II, became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front. After the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff (1945–1948), as president of Columbia University (1948–1953) and as the first Supreme Commander of NATO (1951–1952). Crusade in Europe is a book of wartime memoirs by General Dwight D. Eisenhower published by Doubleday in 1948. Maps were provided by Rafael Palacios. Crusade in Europe is a personal account by one of the senior military figures of World War II. It recounts his appointment by General George Marshall to plan the defense of the Philippines and continues to describe his appointment to, and execution of, the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Northern Europe. The book was dictated by Eisenhower to Kenneth McCormick of Doubleday and Joseph Fels Barnes, former foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. It was revised by Eisenhower's aide Kevin McCann. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First Trade Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 559, [1] pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices, Glossary of Military Code Names. Index. Some wear and soiling to cover. Ink notation on the half-title. Dwight Eisenhower, during World War II, became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front. After the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff (1945–1948), as president of Columbia University (1948–1953) and as the first Supreme Commander of NATO (1951–1952). Crusade in Europe is a book of wartime memoirs by General Dwight D. Eisenhower published by Doubleday in 1948. Maps were provided by Rafael Palacios. Crusade in Europe is a personal account by one of the senior military figures of World War II. It recounts his appointment by General George Marshall to plan the defense of the Philippines and continues to describe his appointment to, and execution of, the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Northern Europe. The book was dictated by Eisenhower to Kenneth McCormick of Doubleday and Joseph Fels Barnes, former foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. It was revised by Eisenhower's aide Kevin McCann. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 559, [1] pages. Endpaper map. , Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices, Glossary of Military Code Names. Index. Pages slightly darkened. Some wear to top & bottom of spine. Some soiling to cover. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. DJ has gotten wet and become stuck to covers. DJ is now separate but there is some part of DJ left on rear board Dwight Eisenhower, during World War II, became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front. After the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff (1945–1948), as president of Columbia University (1948–1953) and as the first Supreme Commander of NATO (1951–1952). Crusade in Europe is a book of wartime memoirs by General Dwight D. Eisenhower published by Doubleday in 1948. Maps were provided by Rafael Palacios. Crusade in Europe is a personal account by one of the senior military figures of World War II. It recounts his appointment by General George Marshall to plan the defense of the Philippines and continues to describe his appointment to, and execution of, the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Northern Europe. The book was dictated by Eisenhower to Kenneth McCormick of Doubleday and Joseph Fels Barnes, former foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. It was revised by Eisenhower's aide Kevin McCann. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 559, [1] pages. Endpaper map. , Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices, Glossary of Military Code Names. Index. Pages slightly darkened. Some wear to top & bottom of spine. Some soiling to cover. Dwight Eisenhower, during World War II, became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front. After the war, he served as Army Chief of Staff (1945–1948), as president of Columbia University (1948–1953) and as the first Supreme Commander of NATO (1951–1952). Crusade in Europe is a book of wartime memoirs by General Dwight D. Eisenhower published by Doubleday in 1948. Maps were provided by Rafael Palacios. Crusade in Europe is a personal account by one of the senior military figures of World War II. It recounts his appointment by General George Marshall to plan the defense of the Philippines and continues to describe his appointment to, and execution of, the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Northern Europe. The book was dictated by Eisenhower to Kenneth McCormick of Doubleday and Joseph Fels Barnes, former foreign editor of the New York Herald Tribune. It was revised by Eisenhower's aide Kevin McCann. More
London: HMSO, 1946. First U.K.? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 149, wraps, illus., maps, front cover somewhat weak, some wear to cover and spine edges. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1946. First U.S? Edition. First? Printing. 30 cm, 123, wraps, illus., maps, some wear and small chips to cover and spine edges, small tear to bottom of spine and to rear cover. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 500, illus., maps, endpaper maps, bibliography, index, usual library markings, boards weak, binding cracked after page 332DJ in plastic sleeve, some wear and chips to DJ edges, plastic sleeve soiled. Reevaluation of some of the personalities and the personal conflicts involved in building the Allied war effort. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 500, illus., maps, endpaper maps, bibliography, index, usual library markings, a few rough spots inside front flyleaf. More
Toronto, Canada: S. J. Reginald Saunders & Co, 1947. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 229 pages. Illus., foxing ins bds & flylves, ink notation ins frontis, DJ foxed & soiled: edges worn, small tears. Signed by Jean Ellis. More
London: Imperial War Museum, 1993. Reprint Edition. 640, v.1 only, illus., maps, footnotes, appendices, index, some edge soiling, slight scuffing to front board. More