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The United States Navy: 200 Years
by Beach, Edward L
- Used
- first
- Condition
- good, good
- ISBN 10
- 0030447119
- ISBN 13
- 9780030447112
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. good, good. 564, illus., appendix, biblio, index, slight wear DJ edges, fr DJ flap creased, some fore-edge soiling. Inscribed by the author. Corners of a few pages creased. Captain Beach was a Naval Academy graduate, class of 1939, and served in the Pacific Theater during WWII. He later served as the Naval Assistant to General Omar Bradley, when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He later served as Naval Aide to President Dwight Eisenhower.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42191
- Title
- The United States Navy: 200 Years
- Author
- Beach, Edward L
- Book Condition
- Used - good, good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0030447119
- ISBN 13
- 9780030447112
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- United States Navy, Naval History, Ironclads, William Sims, Shipbuilding, John Ericsson, Stephen Decatur, Gideon Welles, Inscribed
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