Published by Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969., 1969
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 351 pp. ; illustrated ; 26 cm. ; LCCN: 69-20096 ; copy of Major Joe R. Valles, a member of the 11th Air Force who participated in the Paramushiru Raids in 1943 ; "This is the first history of the Aleutians Campaign to be published." ; "The Thousand-Mile War is the first full-scale history of this critical struggle which provided a microcosmic view of the entire global conflict in the variety of its military operations; and in tracing its details, the author goes beyond the standard historical statistics to follow the campaign through the eyes of the people who were actually there. With skillful use of documents, diaries and personal interviews of veterans of the conflict, he has created a dramatic and authoritative account of the war which sacrifices nothing in the way of historical accuracy and objectivity, yet never loses sight of te individual personalities involved and the struggle for survival each man fought against the terrain, the weather and the hostile environment." ; nick to dustjacket spine sunned ; scarce VG/VG. Book.