Follow Me! (The Story of the Second Marine Division in Ww Ii) by Johnston, Richard W - 1947-01-01

Random House. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. Writing inside. (World War 2, Marine Corps, Military History) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, a small stain or rub at the top front corner, previous owner's emboss and inked date to the half-title page; no jacket. Tipped in is a letter from the Commandant of the Marine Corps regarding the book which was distributed free to men and families of the Second Maines. Laid-in is an article from Leatherneck Magazine about Wyeth Willard, a Navy chaplain who was the only one of eight chaplains to survive Guadalcanal. Willard also went ashore with the Marines at Tarawa. According to the article he is credited with having served more consecutive days under constant enemy fire than any chaplain in the history of the U.S. Navy.. From the foreword: "In preparing the story of the Second Marine Division, the author and the members of the Division History Board have had one paramount aim: to tell it, insofar as possible, 'the way it was'. This has meant including a good deal of… Read More

Battery Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Battery Press, 1969-12-31. 1987 Reprint. hardcover. Good. 11x8x1. 1987 Reprint. Battery Press. 305 pages. 268 photos/drawings. Interior pages and photos are clean and unmarked, no highlighting, creasing, underlining or writing. Light age tanning to pages. No Jacket. Green cloth cover in good condition, some fading, rubbing, edge and shelf wear from normal use. Binding is solid, shows some surface tears/cracks to paper pasted into inside covers (please see photos). All pages are secure/binding is solid. A book that is currently OOP / NP (Out-Of-Print edition / No Longer in Print), uncommon, a first edition, collectable or hard to find. Ships in box, quickly and with care.

N.Y.: Random. larger-format; very nicel copy; clean and bright . Near Fine. Hardcover. First. 1948.

Official accounting of the battles of the Second Marine Division in World War 2. Letter from General C. B. Cates laid in. The Division suffered over 12,000 casualties in their many campaigns. Packed with photos, maps, good commentary. A standard of U.S. Marines in WW2 Pacific Island Warfare and invasions.