colonel joseph greene (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Dark beige hardback with gold print on spine. Minor shelf wear to boards. Pages tight but book will lay open (pages detached along inside spine/gutter). Pages clean/unmarked with very light browning. 675+ pages. PO's name written in ink on top of ffep. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Very good, first edition Hardcover without dust jacket. The book has light rub of spine ends and cover edges. It also has light water stain on bottom foredge and a cracked front hinge. The text is clean.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. 1st Edition. Hardcover with poor DJ. Tan cloth over boards with brown stamping. Title and copyright pages dated 1943, stated First Edition. 675 pages, with appendix. In good condition. Inside flaps of DJ have been glued onto attached endpapers. DJ is quite torn and worn, with portions completely missing, and what remains in poor condition. Covers are clean; some bumping to head and foot of spine. SIGNED and inscribed on front free endpaper by author Joseph Greene. Pages toned with age, but free of marks or tears. Binding is stiff. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. No Jacket. Aerial photographs by the 11th Air Force. Battle photographs by the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Terrain feature photographs by Captain Drummond, "assisted by Private First Class A. E. Johnson, 50th Engineer Regiment. (illustratore). 1st Edition. A collection of short accounts by the officers and men of all ranks who fought on Attu, the westernmost island of the Aleutians. This string of islands, "acquired by the United States in 1867 as part of the Alaska Purchase," extended some one thousand miles west from the mainland of Alaska. Only about 600 miles from Siberia and about 650 miles from a Japanese base in the Kurile Islands, Attu had a grand total in population some 45 native Aleuts and two mainland Americans. The climate here was described as unpleasant: Engulfed in fog most of the time, which could usually not be dispersed by the frequent high winds. The terrain here was described as a nasty combination of "steep, jagged crags, knifelike ridges," and "boggy tundra." All of these elements together arguing against the use of aircraft and vehicles. To top off all of that physical description, "One writer has called Attu 'the lonesomest spot this side of hell.'" As if all of the foregoing were not enough, American forces were faced off against the tough and experienced Japanese in armed combat. This little book testifies to the valor of all of these men.