Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
New York: Random House, 1943. 221, illus., endpaper maps, spine discolored and worn along top and bottom edges, pages darkened. More
New York: Random House, 1943. 221, illus., endpaper maps, spine discolored and worn along top and bottom edges, pages darkened. More
Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1944. 221, illus., endpaper maps, spine and boards worn along edges, pages have darkened. More
New York: Random House, 1943. 221, illus., endpaper maps, spine discolored and worn along top and bottom edges, pages have darkened, boards scuffed. More
Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1944. 221, illus., endpaper maps, bkplate ins fr flylf, some wear to top & bottom of boards, DJ worn & soiled: sm tears, sm pcs missing. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1945. Sixth Paperbk Printing. 4.25" x 6.5", 181, wraps, maps, text darkened, top corner pp. 25-28 creased, covers creased. More
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Bks of Chapel Hill, 1984. Fourth Printing. 295, illus., maps, appendices, index, library stamp & soiling on fore-edge, usual library stamps markings, DJ pasted inside bds. More
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Bks of Chapel Hill, 1984. 295, illus., maps, appendices, index, slight foxing to top edge, small edge tears to rear DJ. More
New York: Warner Books, 1989. First Warner Books Printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. xxi, [1], 295, [3] pages. Maps. Appendices (includes a list of the 1,607 American prisoners aboard the Hell Ships of whom less than 400 survived. Index. Introduction by John Toland. The author survived the Bataan Death March, twenty-eight months of slave labor in the Philippines, and transport to Japan aboard the infamous "hell-ships." Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March--a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton and his comrades it was only the beginning. When the war ended in August 1945, it is estimated that some 57 percent of the American troops who had surrendered on Bataan had perished. This is the story of how men can suffer even the most desperate conditions and, in their will to retain their humanity, triumph over adversity. Some Survived is a harrowing, poignant, and inspiring tale that lifts the heart. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1985. Second Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. 596 pages. Co-Author's Notes. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Edwin Thomas Layton (April 7, 1903 – April 12, 1984) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. Layton is most noted for his work as an intelligence officer during WWII. Layton was in charge of all intelligence in the Pacific Ocean area. Layton was a champion of using code-breaking information in war planning operations. Layton's book describes how Kimmel and his army counterpart at Pearl Harbor, General Walter C. Short, the commanders there, were scapegoats for failures by higher-ups in Washington, D.C. The late Admiral Layton, who was the fleet intelligence officer for Admiral Nimitz through out World War II, describes the breakdown in the intelligence process prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and shares his experiences witnessing feuding among high-level naval officers in Washington that contributed to Japan's successful attack. Roger Pineau entered the Navy in 1942 and spent most of World War II at the Naval Communications Annex in Washington, where he worked in code-breaking operations. In 1947, he became an assistant to Samuel E. Morrison, a Harvard University historian and Navy rear admiral who wrote the official Navy history of World War II. John Edward Costello (1943-1995) was a British military historian, who wrote about World War I, World War II and the Cold War. He then worked as a director and scriptwriter for the BBC before writing on military history. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. 372, maps, endpaper maps, notes, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat scuffed and soiled and small tears. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. 372, maps, endpaper maps, notes, bibliography, index, library stamp, barcode, & partial bookplate, spine soiled & library call number. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1943. Fourth Printing. 22 cm, 374, illus., map, index, ink name inside board, some discoloration of endpapers, flap of DJ remains. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. First Printing. 332, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, slight weakness to front board, small tear in rear DJ. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. First Printing. 332, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, damp stains to rear of board & to fore-edge (no pages stuck together). More
New York: Penguin Books, 1982. 332, wraps, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, some soiling to covers American intelligence had succeeded, even before Pearl Harbor, in penetrating the Japanese codes. More
New York: Capricorn Books, 1972. 766 total, 2 vols., wraps, maps, bibliography, index, library bookplates, stamps, & barcodes, fore-edges soiled, covers & spines soiled. More
New York: Capricorn Books, 1972. Second Printing. 369, v.2 only, wraps, maps, bibliography, index, text has darkened, ink underlining on a few pages, covers & spine worn & soiled. More
New York: Elsevier-Dutton, c1978. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 184, illus., bibliography, index, spine cracked at pp. 154-155 and reglued, front DJ flap price clipped, usual library markings DJ taped. Well illustrated account of World War II in the Pacific. This was the introduction of a new kind of naval war, in which the battles were fought in the skies overhead rather than on the surface of the sea. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1954. 214, illus., maps at end of vol., appendices, bibliography, index, top and bottom edges of spine worn, rear flylf partly torn out. More
n.p. U.S. Army Center of Mil Hist, n.d. 35, wraps, illus. (1 in color), color maps, sticker residue p. 3. More
Canberra, Australia: Australian War Memorial, 1963. 667, illus., maps, footnotes, appendices, index, library bookplate, stamps, & barcode, weakness to front bd, bds corners sl bumped. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. Book Club Edition. 272, illus., maps, endpaper maps, index, rough spot inside rear flyleaf, bkplate ins fr bd, DJ scuffed: edges worn, small tears. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. First Edition. 322, illus., maps, endpaper maps, index, some wear and small tears along top and bottom edges of DJ. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. Book Club Edition. 272, illus., maps, endpaper maps, index, some wear and small tears along top and bottom edges of DJ, DJ somewhat scuffed. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1977. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, [2], 322 pages. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Maps. List of Contributors. Index. John Walter Lord Jr. (October 8, 1917 – May 19, 2002) was an American author, lawyer, copywriter and historian best known for his 1955 account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, A Night to Remember. Lord wrote, or edited and annotated 11 bestselling books on such diverse subjects as the Attack on Pearl Harbor (Day of Infamy, 1957), the Battle of Midway (Incredible Victory, 1967), the Battle of the Alamo (A Time to Stand, 1961), the Battle of Baltimore (The Dawn's Early Light, 1972), Arctic exploration (Peary to the Pole, 1963), pre-World War I America (The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War, 1960), Coastwatchers (Lonely Vigil, 1977), the Dunkirk evacuation (The Miracle of Dunkirk, 1982), and the civil rights struggle (The Past That Would Not Die, 1965). Lord published The Fremantle Diary, edited and annotated from the journals of the British officer and Confederate sympathizer, Arthur Fremantle, who toured the South for three months in 1863. It became a mild, but surprising, success in 1954, as Lord was well into completing A Night to Remember, which would win him much acclaim. A Night to Remember, about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, became a bestseller in 1955. The historian tracked down 63 Titanic survivors and wrote a dramatic, minute-by-minute account of the ocean liner's sinking during her maiden voyage. Lord's knowledge of the Titanic catastrophe achieved considerable renown, and he frequently lectured at meetings of the Titanic Historical Society. More