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Eisenhower, DwightBiblio.com

CRUSADE IN EUROPE. Hardcover A personal account of World War II. Popular Edition

Eisenhower, Dwight DBiblio.com

Crusade in Europe

1948376914New York: Doubleday & Company 1948. First edition #1352 of 1426 copies signed by Eisenhower on the facsimile D-Day Order and additionally inscribed on the colophon. Illustrated with six color maps by Rafael Palacios and 38 text maps plus six photographic illustrations selected by Edward Steichen. 559 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Brown buckram; facsimile signature stamped in black on front title on spine; t.e.g. rest of edges uncut; illustrated map endpapers. Original acetate jacket torn at bottom front otherwise fine. Housed in original printed slipcase shelf worn and split at top. First edition #1352 of 1426 copies signed by Eisenhower on the facsimile D-Day Order and additionally inscribed on the colophon. Illustrated with six color maps by Rafael Palacios and 38 text maps plus six photographic illustrations selected by Edward Steichen. 559 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Eisenhower's personal memoir of his service as the Allied Supreme Commander during World War II replete with detailed maps photographs and diagrams which elucidate both his strategies and decision-making across numerous battles including the Normandy invasion. The book was instrumental in propelling him to the presidency four years later. Each iteration of this limited edition was signed formally by Eisenhower at the bottom of the facsimile D-Day Order at the front of the text. This copy is additionally inscribed on the facing colophon page though using instead his well-known nickname as the signature: "For Tom Butler - / fellow member of the Augusta National - with best wishes from his friend / Ike Eisenhower." Thomas B. Butler a Baltimore banking and railroad executive was a personal friend of Eisenhower as well as a fellow member of the Augusta National Golf Club where he was often the former general's playing partner. Both men have cabins named after them on the Augusta course with Butler's being the site where the winner of each year's Masters Tournament receives his iconic green blazer. Doubleday & Company unknown

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis17 500,00 $US≈ 14 806,75 €

EISENHOWER, Dwight DBiblio.com

Crusade in Europe.

1948193230Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1948. Inscribed to a D-Day commander First edition presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title "For Maj. Gen. Willard G. Wyman - Brilliant battle leader of World War II. With best wishes and warm regards from his comrade-in-arms and devoted friend. Dwight D. Eisenhower December 1948". Willard G. Wyman 1898-1969 first met Eisenhower at Fort Lewis in 1941. In Crusade in Europe Eisenhower names him among "an exceptionally keen group of men. whom I tried with some success to keep close to me throughout the ensuing war years" p. 9. Wyman served under Eisenhower in North Africa and played a leading role on D-Day. As assistant commander of the 1st Infantry Division he commanded their D-Day beachhead: his Distinguished Service Cross citation recorded "Brigadier General Wyman came ashore directly behind the leading wave of troops. Due to enemy action many organizational leaders had become casualties. With disregard for his own personal safety Brigadier General Wyman moved up and down the fire-swept beach personally directing the movement of the men and the vehicles which had landed. Under his direction the men were reorganized and successfully assaulted the enemy positions. The gallantry and outstanding leadership displayed by Brigadier General Wyman exemplify the highest traditions of the military forces of the United States". A year later commanding the 71st Infantry Division in which Eisenhower's son John served Wyman led the unit across the Rhine at Oppenheim and into Germany where it linked up with Soviet forces on the Enns River. He later commanded IX Corps in Korea and served as Commander in Chief NATO Land Forces South-East Europe 1952-54 and Sixth Army 1954-55. He retired in 1958 as commander of Continental Army Command with the rank of four-star general. Octavo. With 16 plates 4 double-page maps 38 full-page maps in text. Original brown cloth spine lettered in gilt on black ground facsimile signature in black to front cover map endpapers fore edge untrimmed. With supplied dust jacket. Rubbed and a little shaken; unclipped jacket with slight rubbing and nicking at extremities: a very good copy in very good jacket. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni9 750,00 £GB≈ 11 132,55 €

EISENHOWER, DwightBiblio.com

CRUSADE IN EUROPE Inscribed to his brother Edgar

1948016960Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight sunning to the spine about Fine lacking the slipcase. First Edition preceding the trade edition. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. There were 1426 deluxe numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the facsimile page of the D-Day Order to send the troops to storm the beaches of Normandy which begins: "You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you." Of those 1426 copies the first 25 were bound in full red morocco leather and put aside for Eisenhower's personal use. This is Copy #4 and in addition to having the SIGNED order is INSCRIBED by the President to his brother on the limitation page: "For my brother Edgar/In the hope that herein/he may find some small/thing to compensate him for/all the trouble caused him/by the soldier member of the/family with lasting devotion./Ike." Edgar N. Eisenhower 19 January 1889 - 12 July 1971 was a lawyer and the older brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The two brothers were known as Big Ike Edgar and Little Ike Dwight with Edgar eventually dropping the nickname. While Dwight's golf game would garner a great deal of attention and he became a most important person in the transition of golf from play to a sport Edgar was the much better golfer winning tournaments over a 20 year span. Edgar was known as a shoot-from-the-hip ultraconservative and a vocal critic of his brother the president. Edgar criticized Ike's budgets policies and judicial nominations. When the press asked Ike about the criticism he smiled and responded that Edgar had been "criticizing me since I was 5 years old." Ike's touching inscription in this book in just a few words perfectly captures their relationship. Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover

Charles Agvent · États-Unis43 750,00 $US≈ 37 016,88 €

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