Stephen Crew (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 444pp., xix. NAP. Index, pp. 428-444. Lavender cloth with title lettering in black across upper middle front cover, editor name lettering in smaller black letters across lower middle front cover; full rear cover black and white illustration of "The Death of Socrates" by Jacques Louis David; black endpapers; spine appears negligibly sunned, barely diminished lavender from covers. Dustwrapper not price-clipped ($15.00, inside bottom right front panel) with title lettering in large black lettering across upper half front cover, editor name in smaller black letters across lower right front cover; illustration of multiple black lines intersecting like poles for a wigwam, down left side front cover; rear dw cover has same black and white illustration of Jacques Louis David's painting on rear cover of book itself). Dustwrapper spine lightly sunned (apparently impacted very slightly the lavender spine of book); moderate shelfwear with all edge tears, corners and spine ends reinforced with Archival tape (book undamaged at all locations of dw flaws: dw did its job): Now in Brodart mylar which forgives these transgressions gracefully. Tight binding (NO cracks), sharp corners (arguably, As New), NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Solid copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing with full number line. A very good copy with some softening to the spine in a very good DJ with some light edgewear and a chip on the back cover, protected by a removable mylar cover. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #609.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Seow, Jackie (jacket design); George McGovern's B-24 Crew (jacket photograph); Ambrose, Grace V. (author photograph); Chovnick, Lisa (book design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition white boards, dark blue spine and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Stephen E. Ambrose; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Prologue; Cast of Characters; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Photo Credits and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates and double page black-and-white photographic frontispiece. "Stephen Ambrose is the acknowledged dean of the historians of World War II in Europe. In three highly acclaimed, bestselling volumes, he has told the story of the bravery, steadfastness, and ingenuity of the ordinary young men, the citizen soldiers, who fought the enemy to a standstill - the band of brothers who endured together. The very young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II against terrible odds were yet another exceptional band of brothers, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary brand of heroism, skill, daring, and comradship with the same vivid detail and affection. Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and then chose those few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war. These are the boys - turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners of the B-24s - who suffered over 50 percent casualties. With his remarkable gift for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine. Twenty-two-year-old George McGovern, who was to become a United States senator and a presidential candidate, flew thirty-five combat missions (all the Army would allow) and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. We meet him and his mates, his co-pilot killed in action, and crews of other planes. Many went down in flames. As Band of Brothers and Citizen Soldiers portrayed the bravery and ultimate victory of the American soldiers from Normandy on to Germany, The Wild Blue makes clear the contribution these young men of the Army Air Forces stationed in Italy made to the Allied victory." - from the inner front jacket flap.