The Bedford Boys : One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice by Kershaw, Alex - 2003

Cambridge, Massachusetts:: Da Capo Press, 2003. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (25.00). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. With maps in the text, and 32 pages of other illustrations on coated stock. Endpaper photos. The poignant, true story of the young soldiers from Bedford, Virginia who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. No other town in America during World War II suffered a greater one-day loss. Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. First printing, with complete number row (123456789) on the copyright page. Bound in the original beige boards, with a brown spine lettered in shiny copper. From the publisher: "On June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from rural Bedford, Virginia, died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and among the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches at Normandy. Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia community died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-two sons of Bedford lost -- it is a story one cannot easily forget and one that the families of Bedford will never forget. Here is the true and intimate story of these men, and the friends and families they left behind -- the story of one small American town that went to war and died on Omaha Beach.". First Printing of the First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket.. 8vo. xiv, 274pp. .