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General Wainwright's Story - The account of Four Years of Humiliating defeat, Surrender, and Captivity by Wainwright, General Jonathan M.; Considine, Robert [Editor] - 1946

by Wainwright, General Jonathan M.; Considine, Robert [Editor]

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General Wainwright's Story - The account of Four Years of Humiliating defeat, Surrender, and Captivity by Wainwright, General Jonathan M.; Considine, Robert [Editor] - 1946

General Wainwright's Story - The account of Four Years of Humiliating defeat, Surrender, and Captivity

by Wainwright, General Jonathan M.; Considine, Robert [Editor]

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USA: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 314 pages. Index. Map. Copyright page provides two dates, 1945 and 1946, and states First Edition. General Wainwright's "story is well known - but his own version of the tragic days on Bataan and Corregidor, the years of captivity and suffering, the final victory and the high honors heaped on him by a grateful people, has a more than eyewitness intensity." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name inside front board. Lengthy ink gift greetings upon front free endpaper suggest both gifter and recipient may have been participants in at least some of the events described herein. Enser p.55.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; WWII - Philippines, Corregidor Island, General Jonathan Wainwright, Bataan .
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  • Publisher Doubleday & Company, Inc.
  • Place of Publication USA
  • Date Published 1946
  • Keywords WWII - Philippines, Corregidor Island, General Jonathan Wainwright, Bataan

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General Wainwright's Story; The Account Of Four Years Of Humiliating Defeat, Surrender, And Captivity. Edited by Robert Considine

by Wainwright, General Jonathan M

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. First edition of General Wainwright's Story, signed by the author.. Octavo, [5], 314pp. Brown cloth, title stamped in gilt. Stated "first edition" on copyright page. Bumped top corner, toning to endpapers. Generally clean text throughout. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $3.00 on front flap, light toning to spine, archival tape repair to verso at spine, a scarce example in this condition. Includes JSA Authentication, with sticker on verso of signed leaf. Signed on the front free endpaper: "To Theodore R. _, Sincerely, J.M. Wainwright. General. U.S.A." General Jonathan M. Wainwright was the Commander of Allied Forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to Japan in the early days of World War II. Upon the surrender of the Philippines and Corregidor, Wainwright became the highest ranking American prisoner of war during World War II. He was released in August of 1945. He… Read More
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