Ernest l king (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. World War II at Sea represents his crowning achievement: a complete narrative of the naval war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas, between 1939 and 1945. Opening with the 1930 London Conference, Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant before the decade was up, as Europe erupted into conflict once more and its navies were brought to bear against each other. World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords; Mussolini's Regia Marina-at the start of the war the fourth-largest navy in the world-and the dominance of the Kido Butai and Japanese naval power in the Pacific; Pearl Harbor then Midway; the struggles of the Russian Navy and the scuttling of the French Fleet in Toulon in 1942; the landings in North Africa and then Normandy. Here as well are the notable naval leaders-FDR and Churchill, both self-proclaimed "Navy men," Karl Donitz, Francois Darlan, Ernest King, Isoroku Yamamoto, Erich Raeder, Inigo Campioni, Louis Mountbatten, William Halsey, as well as the hundreds of thousands of seamen and officers of all nationalities whose live were imperiled and lost during the greatest naval conflicts in history, from small-scale assaults and amphibious operations to the largest armadas ever assembled. Many have argued that World War II was dominated by naval operations; few have shown and how and why this was the case. Symonds combines precision with story-telling verve, expertly illuminating not only the mechanics of large-scale warfare on (and below) the sea but offering wisdom into the nature of the war itself. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 48 pages. Brief statesments by Marian A. Godfrey and Ella King Torrey. Essay by Ernest L. Boyer. Includes numerous black and white images of the various recipients. A close to near fine copy in wrappers with a rubber stamp from the SF Camerawork Reference Library (they recently sold their books) to the title page. Otherwise a clean copy of this scarce catalog which has only 1 listing in OCLC.…

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. ix, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ISBN 9780911721911, 0911721916 OCLC 7553395 LCCN 81003671 LC TL540.M3935 K56 1981 Dewey 629.130924 ; sky blue cloth in color photographic dustjackert ; SIGNED presentation by King on front endpaper ; memorial card for Dick Merrill laid in ; Dick Merrill's colorful career includes barnstorming in a Jenny, delivering aircraft to Lincoln Ellsworth in Antarctica, pioneering the first round trip Atlantic flight, introducing airline service, flying the Hump in Burma during WWII, acting as Eisenhower's personal pilot during the presidential campaignsetting a speed record at age 78 ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. ix, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ISBN 9780911721911, 0911721916 OCLC 7553395 LCCN 81003671 LC TL540.M3935 K56 1981 Dewey 629.130924 ; sky blue cloth in color photographic dustjackert ; SIGNED presentation by King on front endpaper ; reviews laid in ; greeting from Dick Merrill laid in ; Dick Merrill's colorful career includes barnstorming in a Jenny, delivering aircraft to Lincoln Ellsworth in Antarctica, pioneering the first round trip Atlantic flight, introducing airline service, flying the Hump in Burma during WWII, acting as Eisenhower's personal pilot during the presidential campaignsetting a speed record at age 78 ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 271 pages; 1948 Doubleday & Company. HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with $3.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket lightly sun faded at spine and with light toning to the panels; shelf rubbed with shallow chips and a short closed tear at edges and a thumb tip sized chip from the top edge of the front panel. Light expected toning to page stock and light to moderate toning to endpages. Uncommon in the original dust jacket. VG/VG-.…