Bad Company: Drugs, Hollywood, and the Cotton Club Murder (True Crime Library)
by Steve Wick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0312925174
- ISBN 13
- 9780312925178
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
St Martins Press. Very Good/Good. 1991. Hard Cover. 8vo 0312925174 Dust jacket price clipped, stained, wear to edges and chipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Map end papers. Grubby page tips. 304 pages. He stands with the other celebrated Americans who led the Allied victory in Europe-Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton. But never before has there been a full-length treatment of General Mark Wayne Clark. It is a surprising oversight, for Clark was important. He was also as fascinating as any of the others, full of striking contradictions. Was he, for example, a heroic commander or-as many claimed-a glory hound who rigged his campaigns for maximum publicity and was responsible for deadly fiascos in Italy? Now Martin Blumenson, eminent historian and author of the monumental work The Patton Papers, gives Clark the rich and authoritative study he deserves. His account begins with Clark's boyhood in Illinois-he was the son of an army officer and an Arizona frontiers woman and progresses quickly to the onset of war and Clark's stunningly swift rise in rank. Here is the whole story of his famous secret mission to enemy-occupied North Africa, its triumph and also its comic sidelight. New material-much from Clark's own diary-reveals formerly unsuspected frictions in the Anglo-American command and sheds new light on Eisenhower and George Marshall. The bloody battles of Anzio, Rapido, and Cassino take on new meaning when seen as Clark saw them. And it is little known that after the war, Clark played a major role in keeping Austria out of the Soviet orbit and in achieving the Korean armistice. Mark Clark brings us a colorful, complex man who stood at the center of the cataclysmic events of his time. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143146
- Title
- Bad Company: Drugs, Hollywood, and the Cotton Club Murder (True Crime Library)
- Author
- Steve Wick
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312925174
- ISBN 13
- 9780312925178
- Publisher
- St Martins Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
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