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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Size: 9x6x1; Hardcover and dust jacket. Wear/tear to jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xix, 302 pages, illustrations, 25 cm.
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VG-(DJ has some scuffs or wear; this copy is from Clare Boothe Luce's library and has her blindstamp on the tp. ) Crimson cloth, blue dust jacket, 302 pp., BW illus., 4 maps. "The story of General Douglas MacArthur's final days in the Philippine Islands in early 1942 at the start of the war in the Pacific and his subsequent escape via sea and air to Australia. It is also an account of General Jonathan M. Wainwright and the fall of Bataan and Corregidor. The story concerns four other important men--President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of War Henry L Stimson, General George C. Marshall, and Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon--whose decisions and actions determined the fate of 90, 000 soldiers and sailors in the garrisons of Bataan and Corregidor, and of 16 million Filipinos throughout the Philippine archipelago." (preface) This copy came from the person library of American author and U.S. ambassador Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987), who wrote the forward. Her blindstamp appears on the title page.
