Isbn: 9781557509376 - stars in blue: movie actors in america's sea services (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. (w/dj)A clean tightly bound hardcover copy. Unmarked, gently read, showing gentle head and foot wear to the spine and edges of the dust jacket and lightly bumped corners. A really nice copy overall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 316, [3]pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. second printing edition. 316 pages. 9.75x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. x, [4], 316, [6] pages. Illustrations. Appendices, Selected Bibliography. Index. James E. Wise Jr., author, is a former naval aviator, intelligence officer, and Vietnam veteran, retired from the U.S. Navy in 1975 as a captain. He became a naval aviator in 1953 following graduation from Northwestern University. He served as an intelligence officer aboard the USS America and later as the commanding officer of various naval intelligence units. Since his retirement, Captain Wise has held several senior executive posts in private sector companies. His books include Dangerous Games: faces, incidents and casualties of the Cold War, The Silver Star, The Navy Cross, Stars in Blue, and U-505: The Final Journey. He is also the author of many historical articles in naval and maritime journals. Ms. Collier Rehill, a former member of the U.S. Naval Institute editorial staff and college instructor, is a freelance editor, writer, and translator. The lives of movie stars are often more closely followed than those of political leaders, sports figures, or sometimes one's own relatives, but even the most avid film buffs might be surprised to learn their favorite actors served in one of this country's sea services and distinguished themselves above and beyond the call of duty. In this book, filled with fascinating and revealing profiles of more than fifty celebrities, many readers will discover for the first time the patriotic contributions and sacrifices actors have made in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard from World War I to Vietnam. Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Montgomery, and Ernest Borgnine are among many stars who have portrayed naval personnel on film, but do their fans know that Fonda won a Bronze Star for his actions during Pacific naval encounters, that Bogart dropped a fleeing prisoner with his .45, that Montgomery was awarded a Bronze Star for his courageous performance of duty during the Normandy invasion, or that Borgnine hunted U-boats off America's East Coast? A virtual Who's Who, this entertaining yet historically accurate and complete account brings to life these and dozens of other stars' naval and coast guard service backgrounds and film careers, drawn from interviews, diaries, letters, and official military and film industry archives. Find out how John Howard won a Navy Cross, how Navy Hellcat ace Wayne Morris downed seven Japanese planes, how UDT frogman Aldo Ray reconned the Okinawa landing beaches, how Eddie Albert saved more than a dozen wounded marines on the bloody reefs of Tarawa, and how Hedy Lamarr patented World War II communications anti-jamming technology still in use today. Rarely have movie stars' real lives been portrayed in such detail, including interesting anecdotes from their Hollywood careers and never before published photographs from their military careers, including Paul Newman as a Navy radioman/gunner who flew in torpedo bombers during World War II.…

Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 316pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of these profiles of actors who served in the 20th century U.S. Navy and Coast Guard from World War I through Vietnam -- this copy with two choice autograph additions: Tipped to front flyleaf are bold signatures of two thespians included in this volume. At top is an irregular roughly oval 4" X 3" slip inscribed and signed in blue in "To Don Burnell / Every best wish / Robert Stack." Very good. Three small tape stains at edges. Not dated, but circa 1960. Below this is a fine heavy stock 5" X 3" card signed "Frank 'Junior' Coghlan" and dated by him 28 November 1987 at upper right. Stack (1919-2003) appeared in many feature films for several decades, but is best remembered as Eliot Ness on television's "The Untouchables" (1959-63); he served as a U.S. Navy aerial gunnery instructor during the war and rose to the rank of lieutenant. Coghlan (1916-2009) was a child and juvenile actor in many films throughout the '20 and '30s, even appearing briefly in "Gone With the Wind," but during the war he became a U.S. Navy as a naval aviator, where he remained for 23 years, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander.Laid in is the ideal bookmark: Coghlan's original transmittal envelope.…