THE GREAT PACIFIC VICTORY FROM THE SOLOMONS TO TOKYO [INSCRIBED TO SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY]

Cant, Gilbert

Published by The John Day Company, New York, 1946

Octavo, 422 pages; VG-/none; in publisher's dark green cloth, silver lettering to spine and front cover; mild rubbing to boards; INSCRIBED on ffep by Gilbert Cant to Senator Joe McCarthy "Senator, Shipmate + Shellback. With all good wishes"; shelved case 1. Gilbert Cant (1909-1982) was a London-born American journalist who worked for the New York Post. He was a war correspondent in the Pacific during World War II and wrote three books on the subject, The War at Sea, America's Navy in World War II, and The Great Pacific Victory. He joined Time in 1943 and was their medical editor from 1949 to 1969. Cant was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers. Cant himself was the model for the Thomas Trumbull character. After Cant died, Asimov dedicated the collection Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984) to his memory and to that of Frederic Dannay. [wikipedia] Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957) was an American politician who served as U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion. McCarthy commissioned in to the Marine Corps in 1942, where he served as an intelligence briefing officer for a dive bomber squadron. Following the end of World War II, he attained the rank of major. [wikipedia]. 1306907. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1306907

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE GREAT PACIFIC VICTORY FROM THE SOLOMONS ...
Publisher: The John Day Company, New York
Publication Date: 1946
Binding: Hardcover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition.