The Unknown Patton
Place_Pub: New York: Bonanza Books, 1983. Hardcover. 261, illus., appendix, bibliography. More
Place_Pub: New York: Bonanza Books, 1983. Hardcover. 261, illus., appendix, bibliography. More
London, England: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1957. First Edition, Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 224 pages. Some endpaper discoloration. DJ is worn, torn, and chipped. The author was one of the Royal Navy's great commanders of small ships. This book is the story of an outstanding fighting sailor's war. His success as a leader in combined operations led to his appointment to command the naval side of the amphibious assault on the Dutch island of Walcheren, in which his landing craft gained imperishable fame. In the last month of the war. his force played a vital role, operating under extraordinary conditions in the canals, waterways, and estuaries of the Low Countries. This is a record of World War 2 as seen by through a destroyer man's eyes, It is essentially a picture of the war from an operational angle--from the point of view of the user of the weapons put into his hands by others. Donald George Frederick Wyville Macintyre DSO & Two Bars, DSC (26 January 1904 – 23 May 1981) was a Royal Navy officer during the Second World War and a successful convoy escort commander. Following the war, he was an author of numerous books on British naval history. More
n.p. Privately Printed, 1945. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 282 pages. Illus., color fold-out map, endpaper maps, bookplate ins fr bd, rear board scuffed, some wear & spotting to board & spine edges. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Eleventh Printing. 304, illus., newspaper review taped ins fr bd, address sticker ins fr flylf, ink inscript ins fr flylf, some wear to bd & sp edges. More
New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2004. Reprint Edition. Second Printing. 325, illus. Reprint of the 1943 edition. More
Sweetwater, TN: 101st Airborne Division Association Headquarters, c1972. Second Edition [stated]. Enlarged Edition [stated] Date per page v. Hardcover. xxix, [3], 830, [2] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes (including in part The Honor Roll, Battle Credits, Airborne Songs and Poems, and Abbreviations) DJ has some wear, tears, chips and soiling. DJ as Association sticker on front flap. Book has some edge soiling. Title page as Association sticker in publisher's location. The Active Division Chapter is by Judson J. Conner. Includes over 100 maps and dozens of illustrations. New York Times review: “For sheer adventure few writers of fiction surpass this real-life, name-and-date story of men bound together in a combat outfit.” “The 101st Airborne Division, which was activated on August 16, 1942, at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, has no history, but it has a rendezvous with destiny…” Maj.-Gen. William Lee commanding officer 1942. Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of the 101st Airborne Division, is unique among military histories. Never before has such a detailed study been made of the organization, training and operations of a single division of the United States Army. Each action in which the Division took part has been minutely studied and checked against available operations reports and the memories of the men who were there. From the beaches of Normandy to Hitler’s Berchtesgaden hideaway the 101st Airborne fought their way across Nazi-Occupied Europe to Victory. Leonard A. Rapport was an archivist for the National Archives. Before the war, Northwood worked with Time, Inc. He jumped into Europe with the 101st Airborne Division, and later coauthored the Division's official history, titled "Rendezvous with Destiny." More
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.125 inches. 256 pages. Maps (some in color). Illustrations (mostly black and white). Appendices. Index. DJ has a tear and depression at the lower spine. Some denting of the cover spine at this point also noted. This is a large and heavy book; is shipped outside of the Untied States, additional shipping costs will be required. Contents are: Key to Maps. List of Maps. Introduction. Why the Nations Went to War. German Success. Britain Along. The Russian Campaign, 1941-42. The Far East, 1941-42. Africa and the Mediterranean, 1940-43. War on Three Fronts, 1943-44. Bombs and Torpedoes. The End in Europe. The End in the Far East John Ray was a teacher for approximately four decades. In an active retirement he authored a number of WWII and education related studies. More
Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Command and General Staff College, 1994. Presumed first printing of this Issue--50th Anniv. of D-Day. Wraps. 88 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps. More
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1979. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 271 p. More
Rockville Center, NY: Sarpedon Publishers, 1997. First? Edition. First? Printing. 320, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, pencil erasure residue inside front endpaper. More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1998. Fourth Printing. pocket paperbk, 403, wraps, illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, text somewhat darkened The participation in the Battle of Hitler's Bodyguard Regiment--the 1st SS Corps Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler and the 12th SS Corps, Hitler Jugend. More
New York: Warner Books, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. Mass market paperback. Pocket paperback. xii, 322, [2]pages. Illustrations. Wraps. Some soiling and darkening to text, p. 285 creased, foxing to fore-edge, some wear to cover edges. Andrew Aitken "Andy" Rooney (January 14, 1919 – November 4, 2011) was an American radio and television writer who was best known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney," a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired on October 2, 2011. He died one month later, on November 4, 2011, at age 92. According to CBS News's biography of him, "Rooney wrote his first television essay, a longer-length precursor of the type he does on 60 Minutes, in 1964, "An Essay on Doors." From 1962 to 1968 he collaborated with another close friend, CBS News correspondent Harry Reasoner — Rooney writing and producing, Reasoner narrating — on such notable CBS News specials as "An Essay on Bridges" (1965), "An Essay on Hotels" (1966), "An Essay on Women" (1967), and "The Strange Case of the English Language" (1968). In 1968, he wrote two episodes of the CBS News documentary series Of Black America, and his script for "Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed" won him his first Emmy." More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, 236, illus., DJ worn, soiled, edge tears, and chips, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Times Books, 1995. First Edition. Second Printing. 318, illus., index, library stamp inside rear flyleaf crossed out in marker, library stamps to fore-edge, DJ in plastic sleeve library stamps on DJ and plastic sleeve (some crossed out in marker). The author was a correspondent for The Stars and Stripes during World War II. More
New York, N.Y. PublicAffairs, 2000. First Paperback Edition Printing this Publisher [Stated]. Trade paperback. xiii, [1], 333, [5] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Black mark on bottom edge. Includes Foreword by Tom Brokaw, as well as Acknowledgments and Index. Topics covered include Drafted; Private Rooney; The Air War; The Land War; Germany, At Last; and Going Home. Andrew Aitken Rooney (January 14, 1919 – November 4, 2011) was an American radio and television writer who was best known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. His final regular appearance on 60 Minutes aired on October 2, 2011. Rooney was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal and Air Medal for his service as a war correspondent in combat zones during the war. His 1995 memoir My War chronicles his war reporting and recounts several notable historical events and people from a firsthand view, including the entry into Paris and the Nazi concentration camps. He describes how it shaped his experience both as a writer and reporter. CBS refused to broadcast his World War II memoir entitled "An Essay on War" in 1970, so Rooney quit CBS and read the opinion himself on PBS, which was his first appearance on television. That show won him his third Writers Guild Award. As a young correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Andy Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France after the D-Day invasion, was in Paris for the Liberation, crossed the Rhine with the Allied forces, and was one of the first reporters into Buchenwald. My War is the story of a writer learning the craft of journalism. It is moving, suspenseful, and reflective. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 2000. First Public Affairs Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 333, [5] pages. Illustrations. Index. Slight wear to DJ. Dot on top edge. Foreword by Tom Brokaw. The author recounts his experiences as a young reporter to "Stars and Stripes," the American forces' daily newspaper in Europe, including his personal account of the liberation and entry into Buchenwald. Andrew Aitken Rooney (January 14, 1919 – November 4, 2011) was a radio and television writer known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011. Rooney began his career in newspapers in 1942 while in the Army where he began writing for Stars and Stripes in London. He was one of six correspondents who flew on the second American bombing raid over Germany in February 1943, flying with the Eighth Air Force. He was the first journalist to reach the Ludendorff Bridge after the 9th Armored Division captured it on March 7, 1945. He was one of the first American journalists to visit the Nazi concentration camps, and one of the first to write about them. Rooney stated that he had been opposed to World War II because he was a pacifist. He recounted that what he saw in those concentration camps permanently changed his opinions about whether "just wars" exist. Rooney was decorated with the Bronze Star Medal and Air Medal for his service as a war correspondent in combat zones during the war. His memoir My War recounts notable historical events and people from a first-hand view, including the entry into Paris and the concentration camps. He describes how it shaped his experience both as a writer and reporter. More
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxi, [3], 470, [2] pages. Frontis illustration. Foreword by Harry L. Hopkins. Illustrations. Index. Rear board weakness. Some staining inside rear cover. Cover worn and some edges frayed. Inscription in German on fep signed with the initials K. A. Examination of example of Konrad Adenauer's signature leads to a presumption that these are his initials. Contains 62 speeches and introduction. Speeches include: New Deal Speech; First, Second, Third, Fourth Inaugural Address; Fireside Chats; Radio Appeals; Social Security; Armistice Day Address; Statue of Liberty; Jackson Day Dinner; Congress 150th anniversary; National Defense; Selective Service Registration Day; Four Freedoms Speech; Atlanta Carter; Progress of the War; State of the Union in Wartime; Coal Crisis; Christmas Eve Speech; War in the Pacific; Campaign Address; Eve of Death; etc. Photos contain Annual Message to Congress; Lend-Lease Bill; Roosevelt and Churchill; Reviews the War; AT Casablanca; Big Three Confer at Yalta. This includes the speech written on the eve of death, to have been delivered at the Jefferson Day Winner in Washington D.C. April 13 1945. Significantly, the last word in that message is "faith" More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. Reprint Edition. 26 cm, 798, illus., maps (some fold-out, 1 color in pocket), tables, charts, appendices, bibliographical note, glossary, index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. Reprint Edition. 26 cm, 798, illus., maps (some fold-out, 1 color in pocket), biblio note, glossary, index, some wear to board and spine edges. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1966. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. 26 cm, 798, illus., maps (some fold-out, 2 color in pocket), charts, tables, bibliographical note, glossary, index, board corners worn. More