Airwar, Volume III: Outraged Skies
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Quarto, 147, v.3 only of the 4-vol. trade edition, illus., index, DJ somewhat soiled & stained, some wear to DJ spine edges. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Quarto, 147, v.3 only of the 4-vol. trade edition, illus., index, DJ somewhat soiled & stained, some wear to DJ spine edges. More
New York: Everest House, 1980. First Edition. First? Printing. 224, illus., sources, index, some library markings, several ink names on fr endpaper, DJ somewhat worn/soiled: edge tears/chips. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945. Second Printing. Quarto, 174, illus. (some in color), maps, discoloration ins fr bd & flylf, soiling ins rear flylf, pencil inscript ins fr flylf, bds scuff. More
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1945. Quarto, 174, wraps, illus. (some in color), maps, covers and spine quite worn, large tear at front hinge, some pages darkened. More
New York: World Book Company, [1944]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21.5 cm, 227, endpaper maps, usual library markings, part of DJ cut off and pasted to front endpaper The author was an Australian war correspondent; he presents a picture of Australia at war, and of the Australian attitude to the United States and Great Britain. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1942. Fourth Printing. 280, illus., endpaper maps, damp stains and wrinkling to boards. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1957. Eleventh Printing. 280, illus., endpaper maps, lib stamps & pocket, sm stains & library stamp to fore-edge, bds stained & worn, spine edges threadbare. More
New York: Bantam, 1979. Special Illustrated Edition. Presumed first printing. Mass market paperback. x, [6]m 234, [6] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Color fold-out illustration after front cover (with small initial in ink). Maps. Slightly cocked. Small part of front cover corner gone. This is one of the Bantam War Books series. Stanley Johnston (1900 – September 13, 1962) was an Australian-American journalist who, as a correspondent during World War II, wrote a story for the Chicago Tribune that inadvertently revealed the extent of American code-breaking activities against the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). He was assigned to a press position aboard the USS Lexington in the Pacific. The story resulted in efforts by the United States government to prosecute Johnston and other Tribune journalists, an effort what remains the only time the Espionage Act was used against journalists in the United States. No indictment was returned, and grand jury proceedings were sealed until 2017. More
Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Company, [1959]. First Edition. Hardcover. 25 cm, 283 pages. Maps. Endpaper maps. Index. Stamp on flyleaf. Foreword by Admiral W. F. Halsey. More
Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Company, [1959]. First Edition. Second Printing. 25 cm, 283, maps, endpaper maps, index, foxing to fore-edge & ins boards & flyleaves, DJ worn & chipped. Foreword by Admiral W. F. Halsey. More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1944-1952. 3091 total, 6-vol. set, illus., maps, appendices, index, usual library markings, boards soiled and stained, spines discolored and worn. More
New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1948. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, 532 pages. List of Casualties; Footnotes. 17 maps and 80 photographic plates. Appendix. Index. Some discoloration and soiling inside boards and flyleaves. Some cover wear and soiling. Prepared from Official Sources. Walter Karig (November 13, 1888 – September 30, 1956) was a prolific author, who served as a US naval captain. Karig wrote a number of works on Allied naval operations during World War II. He also wrote scripts for the television series Victory at Sea. Besides his works on naval history, Karig was a novelist, publishing under his own name, and a journalist. During World War I he served in the French Foreign Legion and Free Polish Legion, completing his service in the latter as Captain of Infantry. He was appointed Lieutenant Commander in the US Naval Reserve in September 1942, and subsequently attained the tank of Captain on 15 January 1946. In October 1943 he assumed duty as Officer in Charge of the Navy Narrative History Project, and two years later became Assistant Director of Public Relations. A brilliant writer and editor, he applied his fine talents and knowledge of the techniques of publishing to the production of hundreds of books and more than one thousand major magazine articles concerning the Navy at war. Exercising his exceptional ability as a writer and historian, he rendered invaluable assistance in the organization and implementation of a television series, Victory at Sea, and became technical director and Naval Officer in Charge of the series which portrays in authentic motion pictures the Navy's role in WWII, based on Battle Report and other source material. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1950. 282, frontis illus., footnotes, index, bookplate & ink name ins fr bd, discoloration ins bds, DJ worn/torn & several pieces missing. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1950. 282, frontis illus., footnotes, index, usual library markings, weakness to front board, boards worn, scuffed, & scratched. More
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. First American Edition. First Printing. 368, illus., glossary, bibliography, chronology, chapter notes, index, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1947. 317, illus., discoloration inside boards, pages have darkened, spine wrinkled, boards scuffed. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1947. 317, illus., discoloration inside boards, boards somewhat scuffed, some wear to board and spine edges. More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951. Second Printing. Hardcover. 264 pages. Illus., some soiling inside front board and flyleaf, spotting on fore-edge, front cover and spine stained, spine edges worn. More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. 594, maps, endpaper maps, index, some scuffing inside boards and flyleaves, some wear to boards and spine edges. More
Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, 1986. Reprint Edition. Trade paperback. xviii, 594 pages. Wraps. Maps. Index. Small stains inside rear cover, some spotting and wear to cover edges. USAF Warrior Studies. In July 1942, Kenney received orders to take over the Allied Air Forces and Fifth Air Force in General Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pacific Area. MacArthur had been dissatisfied with the performance of his air commander, Lieutenant General George Brett. Offered a choice between Kenney and Major General James Doolittle, MacArthur chose Kenney. Kenney reported to MacArthur in Brisbane on 28 July 1942, and felt that MacArthur did not understand air operations, but recognized that he somehow needed to establish a good working relationship with him. When he asked MacArthur for authority to send people he considered "deadwood" home, something that his superiors in Washington, D.C. had refused to give, MacArthur enthusiastically approved. In Australia, he found two talented, recently arrived brigadier generals, Ennis Whitehead and Kenneth Walker. Kenney reorganized his command in August, appointed Whitehead as commander of the V Fighter Command and Walker as commander of the V Bomber Command. More
n.p. Privately Printed, 1945. Hardcover. 57 pages. Discoloration inside boards, pencil scribbling ins fr flylf, bds & spine soiled & worn, sm tears at spine & sm chips missing. Signed on fep. More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1985. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 356 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Chronology. Notes. Sources. Appendices. Index. DJ is in a plastic sleeve with slight wear and soiling. The author was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. The author also has an M.B.A. from Syracuse University. He served as an infantry company commander during the Korean War, were he was seriously wounded and was awarded the Silver Star. He was then assigned as military assistant to the Army's chief historian and worked with a team of professional historians on the writing and production of the U.S. Army's multi-volume series on World War II. The author's father died while a prisoner of the Japanese. In 1977 he visited the sites of several of the larger POW camps in the Philippines and research the voyage of the unmarked Japanese ship Oryoku Maru, taking back to Japan the last of the POWs, most of whom were officers. The author's father was on that ship. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. First Edition. 482, illus., maps, small tears and some wear along top and bottom edges of DJ spine. More
Middletown, Connecticut: The Southfarm Press, 1985. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. 80 pages. Promotional sticker on the front cover. Chapters include information on Pearl Harbor, Geography, People, Naval Power, Air Power, The Homefront, Pacific Islands, Weapons and Devices, Health and Welfare, Jargon, A-Bomb, and The End of the war. Also includes Further Reading. Answers are located at the end of each chapter. This book contains over 330 questions about the war in the Pacific. The book tests the reader's knowledge of little-known facts, as well as some of the more commonly known events. The author was a documents librarian at Wesleyan University in Connnecticut. He based the book on his own readings and research concerning World War II. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1994. First Printing. 24 cm, 226, acid-free paper, illus., bibliographic essay, index. More