Translated by anthony rippon (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Firmly bound, black cloth boards. Small tear, bumping and marks on cover and spine. Browning on the end papers. Creases on first few pages. No jacket, reading copy only with rubbed title on the spine. illustrated (illustratore).

Pictorial Wraps. Condizione: Good. First Thus. Translated from the French by Anthony Rippon. Front cover blurb: "The Japanese armadas steamed out in a bid to dominate the Pacific - but it was disaster for the fleets of Nippon". First Panther edition, December 1959. Mass market paperback. Printed in England. A GOOD COPY. Slight handling wear, cocked, small abrasion & light crease to front cover, mild marginal spotting, otherwise a clean tight solid softcover copy. 190pp. SB-83.…

Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Devin-Adair Co, New York. 1957. Xxii, 362 pages. First US Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ chipped at the spine ends). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. At first glance, Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II offers potentially unique insights into the Pacific war. Originally published in the U. S. In 1957, it is contemporaneous with works such as S. E. Morison's History of U. S. Naval Operations in World War II (1947-1962) and Mitsuo Fuchida's Midway: the Battle that Doomed Japan (1955) and so documents what would still have been relatively recent events. The author, Andrieu d'Albas, was a Captain in the French Navy and (presumably) wrote from the perspective of an informed non-participant. He also, according to the dust jacket, ".spent many months of duty in postwar Japan, married a Japanese woman, speaks Japanese fluently, and knows intimately many of Japan's former top naval officers and civilian leaders" and was thus able to obtain first-person accounts from the losing side. Taken together, these traits of the book and its author should have combined to make a unique contribution to the World War II history of the Imperial Japanese Navy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…