Published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1974
ISBN 10: 0826302823 ISBN 13: 9780826302823
Seller: Sabra Books, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Tips are slightly bent. Multiple open/close tears along the DJ edges. Some rubbing wear with some creases to DJ covers. Binding is not tight. No markings on text and/or images. Minor wear along the edges of the book. Spine is very slightly twisted.
Published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1974
ISBN 10: 0826302823 ISBN 13: 9780826302823
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. Crimson cloth, blue dust jacket, 302 pp., BW illus., 4 maps. "The story of General Douglas MacArthur's final days in the Philippine Islands in early 1942 at the start of the war in the Pacific and his subsequent escape via sea and air to Australia. It is also an account of General Jonathan M. Wainwright and the fall of Bataan and Corregidor. The story concerns four other important men -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of War Henry L Stimson, General George C. Marshall, and Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon -- whose decisions and actions determined the fate of 90,000 soldiers and sailors in the garrisons of Bataan and Corregidor, and of 16 million Filipinos throughout the Philippine archipelago." (preface) This copy came from the person library of American author and U.S. ambassador Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), who wrote the forward. Her blindstamp appears on the title page. VG- (DJ has some scuffs or wear; this copy is from Clare Boothe Luce's library and has her blindstamp on the tp.).