emil herlin (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

No Binding. Zustand: Good. Emil Herlin ? (illustrator). 1st Edition. Marine Outpost WAKE ISLAND in the Pacific. Original newspaper map & photo published on Thursday December 25, 1941. Wake Atoll is located two-thirds of the way from Honolulu to Guam. On December 8, 1941 (within a few hours of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Wake Island being on the opposite side of the International Date Line), American forces on Wake Island were attacked by Japanese bombers. This action marked the commencement of the Battle of Wake Island. On December 11, 1941, Wake Island was the site of the Japanese Empire's first unsuccessful amphibious attack on U.S. territory in World War II when U.S. Marines, with some U.S. Navy personnel and civilians on the island, repelled an attempted Japanese invasion. This photo has the headline: "Where the Defenders of Wake Island were quartered "Shows the rough huts used by our Marine Garrison. The island fell to overwhelming Japanese forces 12 days later, and remained occupied by Japanese forces until it was surrendered to the U.S. in September 1945 at the end of the war. 2 pcs. pp. Tiny Map is 2" x 2" photo 6" x 8" full date on the verso Dec. 25, 1941. Good condition.

First edition. Wrappers. Small 8vo, 96 pp. Headline Books, no. 23. Very good copy, small spot on back cover, spine little rubbed. 45 maps with text. Maps by Emil Herlin, text by Varian Fry. Typography by Andor Braun. Response postcard and order form strapped under text block front and back. Fry went on to save the lives of many European refugee intellectuals and artists by making possible their escape from Vichy France. He was the subject of the recent drama series Transatlantic.