Then There Was One: The U.S.S. Enterprise and the First Year of War

Eugene Burns

Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, NY, 1944

About this Item

Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. 1944. Hardcover. 2nd Printing (b-4-44). Stated a Wartime Book. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light soiling to textlbock top and fore edge; moisture stain to tail and adjacent boards for 1 inch. DJ: Good; Price Clipped; missing piece at top of spine; wear and missing small pieces at tail and tips; shelfwear to spine shoulders and flap folds. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright white lettering on the spine. 177 pp +34 pp photo section. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split.177 pp 8vo. This is the war story of the USS Enterprise, a US Navy aircraft carrier that in the thick of the fighting in the first year of the Pacific War. When other carriers were out of action the Big E kept on fighting and helped turn the tide of the was especially with her actions against the Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway. This ship was also the flagship for Admiral Halsey as he fought the war in the Pacific. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jaclet.

Seller Inventory # 018039

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Then There Was One: The U.S.S. Enterprise and the First Year of War
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1944
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • United States Navy
  • World War II