General Matthew B (4 results)
Published by Circulation Service, Dayton, OH, 1982
- Softcover
Seller: The Story Shop, Elwood, IN, U.S.A.The Story Shop
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Good. Complete and sound with no writing, but has some old faint staining here and there. Some handling wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Negotiating while fighting: The diary of Admiral C. Turner Joy at the Korean Armistice Conference (Hoover archival documentaries)
Joy, C. Turner (Adm, USN) (Allan E. Goodman, Editor/Intro & General Matthew B.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Kisselburg Military Books, Potomac, MD, U.S.A.Kisselburg Military Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. very nice copy.
More imagesPublished by Doubleday & Company, Inc, New York, 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xvii, 291pp, [3]. Black cloth, title printed on spine. The first printing, with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page, "I-37" code in gutter. Solid text block. Illustrated endpapers, with light offsetting from the publish…er's glue along hinges. In the publisher's dust jacket, wear along top edge, $6.95 retail price on the front flap, bright illustrations, a near fine example. Inscribed on the half-title: "To Richard Dill / _ 11th Combat Engineer Battalion, Eighth Army, Korea, 1950-1951, a participant in this bit of history making, with all best wishes / M. B. Ridgway / General, US Army / Retired / 9 Aug 69." General Matthew B. Ridgway (1895-1993) served as the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. After his notable Allied victories in the Italian Campaign and the Battle of Normandy, Ridgway took command of the XVIII Airborne Corps. He commanded the corps in the Battle of the Bulge, Operation Varsity and the overall Western Allied invasion of Germany. After the war, he served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1952-1953), the Army Chief of Staff (1953-1955), and as a member of the "Wise Men" group, advising President Johnson on the Vietnam War. The Korean War by General Matthew B. Ridgway, inscribed to a fellow veteran. (illustrator). Signed.
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Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA
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Add to basketEnvelope. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Patriotic 1st class envelope. SIGNED by General of the Army Matthew B. Ridgeway. Printed statement on envelope reads -"St. Patrick Drove The Snakes Out of Ireland General Ike will Drive them out of Europe." Fine. General Ridgway took command of the 82nd. Airborne in 1942. He Jumped into… Sicily and later Salerno. On June 6th he parachuted into Normandy on D-Day. He was Supreme Commander in Korea by 1951 after transforming the demoralized U. S. Eighth Army into an aggressive combat force.
