Lemay

1965 · Best.-Nr. 73171 — E-182: Doubleday & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Company Inc Garden City NY. 1965. 581 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Signed by Curtis LeMay and Mackinlay Kantor on the half title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present light chipping present to the crown of the DJ spine. Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Mission With Lemay: My Story by Curtis E. LeMay and MacKinlay Kantor is the personal and outspoken story of a history making General Curtis E. LeMay. His military contributions were enormous. His firebombing campaign against Japan between March 1945 and the Japanese surrender in August 1945 may have killed more than 500000 Japanese civilians. He said "if the US lost the war he fully expected to be tried for war crimes". After the war he unintentionally iniated the Berlin Airlift then reorganized the Stretegic Air Command SAC into an effective instrument of nuclear war. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 581 pages . Doubleday & Company hardcover