Description

Hardcover, burgundy cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 151pp., Stated first edition. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. No previous ownership marks. The autobiographical novel of an American “everyman”, who served in both the European and Pacific theatres during World War II. Evocatively penned in the first person, it is a tale of fear and anxietiy, travel and new experiences, boredom and horror, in short, the experiences of countless American and foreign ‘boys’ caught up in a war they neither fully comprehended or wished for. A very clean, square, unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.