Expendable by White, First Edition (36 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. There is some wear to the cover. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. They. Were Expendable W L White 1942 1st Edition Hardcover Harcourt, Brace. There is some wear to the cover. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog. Modified Item: No. Topic: Literature. Binding: Hardcover. Author: W L White. Subject: Literature & Fiction. Language: English. Publisher: Harcourt, Brace. Special Attributes: 1st Edition.

Paperback. first edition. s-223 good 1944 paperback,

Paperback. first edition. s-223 very good 1944 era paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The book is in Good condition. While it has clearly been used, the pages are clean and easy to read. The binding is strong and holds the pages tightly. The title on the spine remains bright. The is light wear to the front and edges of the cover. There is a name in ink on the back of the front cover and a note and price in pencil on the first page. Please see the pictures. There is no dust jacket. The book comes from a smoke free home. It will be sent by Media Mail through the US Post Office within two days, usually sooner.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. 1st Edition?. GOOD Condition, spine & cover has some small white flecking to the blue cloth hard covers.Name endpaper "M.R.Foss".else clean solid copy. ; very dark blue cloth hard covers. ; 209pg pages; DRAMATIC FIRST PERSON STORY of PT Boats In WW2, Manila Bay to Bataan.Philippine.America's Little Dunkirk.end of book has NAME LIST PERSONNEL TORPEDO 3.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Harcourt, 1942. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with the previous owners name on the front fly leaf page. Dust jacket is very good with some edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Minor stain marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. The story of the US Navy's Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 and it's dangerous missions in the Pacific, mainly around the Philippines. 128pp. Blue cloth boards with light shelf-wear and sunned spine. Some dust-spotting to edges of pages. Fraying to head of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Water damage. There is some wear to the cover. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. They Were Expendable W.L. White 1944 Forum Books Edition 1st Printing. Water damage. There is some wear to the cover. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog. Modified Item: No. Topic: Historical. Binding: Hardcover. Author: W.L. White. Subject: Military & War. Language: English. Publisher: The World Publishing Company. Special Attributes: 1st Edition.

VGD. VGD.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Blue-black clothcovered boards with red lettering on the spine and red on the top edge. Owner label on the front pastedown, owner signature on the front free endpaper, the spine slightly cocked, foxing to the edges, and some light wear to the boards and spine ends, still very good, lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Firs t Australian Edition. 128 pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good minus. Spine slightly worn. Pages yellowed over time.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Dust jacket in poor condition with heavy wear, tears chips and rubbing present. Pictures available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. No DJ, the boards are black with red lettering on the spine. The book is clean and tight pages.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. This very good copy is bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The unclipped dust wrapper has some edge wear so best described as good condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. A national bestseller when it was originally published in 1942 and the subject of a 1945 John Ford film featuring John Wayne, They Were Expendable offers an account of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three's heroic actions during the disastrous Philippine campaign early in World War II. The author uses an unusual and effective format to tell the story: an interview with the four young survivors whose names are forever linked with the tragedy - John Bulkeley, Robert Kelly, Anthony Akers, and George Cox. Deeply moving, it describes Squadron Three's brave exploits, from the first appearance of Japanese planes over Manila Bay to its calamitous end, including a thrilling account of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's escape from Bataan. Ref *SS4.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 204 p. The story of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3, which took General MacArthur on the perilous journey out of Bataan. Jacket is edgeworn. Near fine in very good jacket in mylar cover.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition. Originally published in the US by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1942. The boards have fading to the spine, particulary at the top and bottom where the jacket is damaged, and there is a little discolouration to the edges and rubbing and bumping to the corners. Page edges are browned with some dark spotting to the top edges. Light spotting to the endpapers but the pages are generally otherwise unmarked. The jacket has a three inch tear at the bottom of the spine with some chipping and loss and some chipping at the top. The spine is also heavily browned and there is dark brown spotting to the front and rear panels and the flaps and chipping to the corners. First printing.

1st edn. 8vo. Original red lettered blue cloth, top edge red (bright VG), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - in protective cover). Pp. vii + 209 (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Australian edition hardcover in fair condition with some yellowing on front end pages and spots in front and back cover, dust jacket in fair condition with wear around top and bottom of the spine and along edges, has removable plastic cover. Gift inscription on front end page.

1st edition original boards Nice Copy small octavo 128pp., Story of US Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 in WWII. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. THEY WERE EXPENDABLE BY W.L. WHITE 1942 3RD PRINTING HC DJ VG. This book is the story of the early days of World War II in the Philippines when Gen. Douglas MacArthur was forced/ordered to withdraw. It is the story told by four officers of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 which took MacArthur out of Bataan. The flap of the dust jacket characterizes the story as the whole tragic panorama of the Philippine Campaign the hopelessness and the flaming courage around America s little Dunkirk. This small hard cover book (5 ¾ x 8 ¼ inches, 209 pages) was published by Harcourt, Brace, and Company of New York, dated October 1942 and the Third Printing of the First Edition. The book is bound in matte black boards with red titles on the spine and protected by a pictorial dust jacket. Condition: This book is in very good condition. There is some wear to the dust jacket, including some chips, small tears and wrinkling to the edges. It is not price-clipped. The hard covers have lost a small chip out of the top of the spine cum front cover and there has been some bumping to the corners. Inside, the book is unmarked and the pages are bright and clean and without toning or foxing. Both hinges are intact, and the binding is tight and sound. This book is not ex-library or a remainder. Language: ENG.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 209 pages; DJ is nicked and torn with several small pieces missing. Mylar cover. Book solid with rubbed edges, not frayed. Pages are yellowing but aren't briddle. First printing of the Forum Edition. This is a Wr Book Panel Imperative Book. Endorsed by the Council on in wartime.

Boards. 1st Australian. 8vo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp 128. Previous owner's name stamp front endpapers, very good in worn and fraying dustjacket, protected. Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, the Phillipines, WWII. Filmed in 1945 with John Wayne.

Wraps. Condition: fair. 116 pages , wraps, covers worn and soiled. "A Fighting Forces-Special Edition" published by Infantry Journal and Penguin. The story of the Philippine campaign as told by four officers of the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3. John D. Bulkeley, their commander, was awarded the Medal of Honor for that action--and recruited John F. Kennedy to PT boat service. The book, which was a bestseller and excerpted in Reader's Digest and Life, is noted for its verisimilitude in its depiction of naval combat. The author, renowned in his own right, was the son of William Allen White. William Lindsay White (June 17, 1900 - July 26, 1973) was an American journalist, foreign correspondent, and writer. He succeeded his father as editor and publisher of the Emporia Gazette in 1944. Among White's most noteworthy books are They Were Expendable and Lost Boundaries, which was adapted into the film Lost Boundaries. White worked for the Washington Post in 1935 and for Fortune magazine in 1937. In 1939 he became a war correspondent for the Columbia Broadcasting System and a consortium of 40 newspapers. The National Headliners Club awarded him its prize for best European broadcast of the year for his editorial "The Last Christmas Tree" from the Mannerheim Line in Finland in 1940. He reported from London in 1940-41 for the North American Newspaper Association and Readers Digest. In 1942 he became Roving Editor for Readers Digest. A national bestseller when it was originally published in 1942 and the subject of a 1945 John Ford film featuring John Wayne, this book offers a thrilling account of the role of the U.S. Navy's Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three during the disastrous Philippine campaign early in World War II. The author uses an unusual, but thorough, spellbinding format to tell the story: an interview with four heroic young participants. Ranked with the great tales of war by the Saturday Review of Literature, it is a deeply moving book that describes the four officers' extraordinary exploits from the first appearance of Japanese planes over Manila Bay to the squadron's calamitous end-including getting Gen. Douglas MacArthur safely to Australia. Filled with action, drama, and history, this unique portrayal of America's little Dunkirk was described by the New York Times as being almost unbearably painful at times, yet so engrossing that few who begin it will be able to put it down until they have finished its adventure-packed pages. Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three (MTBRon 3) was a United States Navy squadron based at Cavite, Philippines, from September 1941 to mid-April 1942. It was commanded by Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley and made up of six motor torpedo boats: PT-31, PT-32, PT-33, PT-34, PT-35, and PT-41, the last as the squadron flagship. The other six boats of the squadron remained at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and were there when war broke out, eventually being shipped to the Solomons. After the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Japan on 7 December 1941, the squadron moved from Cavite to Sisiman Bay on the Bataan Peninsula with the requisitioned tug Trabajador as tender, where it helped in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. PT-31 and PT-33 were sunk during the battle. On 11 March 1942, the remaining boats of the squadron transported General Douglas MacArthur and several high-ranking officers from Corregidor to Mindanao, an act which earned every member of the squadron the Silver Star. PT-32 was scuttled during this mission, reducing the squadron to three boats: PT-41, PT-34, and PT-35. These three boats were based at Mindanao until mid-April 1942, where two of them (PT-41 and PT-34) attacked the Japanese cruiser Kuma, scoring at least one hit. This was to be the squadron's last action: PT-34 was destroyed by Japanese aircraft, PT-35 had to be scuttled to avoid capture, and PT-41 was commandeered by the U.S. Army to defend Lake Lanao. She was scuttled as well, three days after transfer. Bulkeley and three other officers were later flown to safety on MacArthur's orders, with a fifth officer joining them shortly after. These five officers were all that remained of this squadron as a result. Three officers and fifteen enlisted men were killed in action or died as prisoners of war, seven evaded capture as guerrillas on Leyte, and 38 POWs were liberated after the war. The squadron's exploits were immortalized in the book and film They Were Expendable. Bulkeley was awarded the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Philippine Distinguished Conduct Star, and the Silver Star during his command of the squadron, making him one of the most decorated U.S. naval officers of World War II. First Edition thus, presumed first printing thus.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition (?). light wear to dustcover, bit more upper and lower spine and tips, to white spots on front, toning to endpapers, very slight toning to interior pages ; Very light wear to blue hardboards, sharp tips, no other markings ; 209 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition, no jacket, externally rather worn and stained, pages yellowed with a few minor blemishes, owner name.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition, 4th Printing. The story of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3, virtually wiped out in the fall of the Philippines. As told by four of its surviving officers, including Lt. John Bulkeley, who evacuated MacArthur, won the Medal of Honor and Navy Cross and retired as a Vice-Admiral. The basis for the John Ford movie. A very good copy, front cover very slightly dampstained, corners & edges a bit worn, discreet ink marginalia in roster, in price-clipped, worn dust jacket with chipped corners. (205p., roster.).

1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good small octavo 128pp., Story of US Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 in WWII. Tatty dj o/w VG.