Rome fell today by ADLEMAN, ROBERT H / WALTON, COLONEL GEORGE - 1969

Little, Brown and Company, 1968. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Dustjacket has wear and several tears and chips along the edges. Cover has some wear and spine is cocked slightly to the right. Some foxing on top page edges. Stated first edition.

Bantam Books. Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Paperback. 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

New York: Bantam Books. Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Paperback. Top Edge Slightly Soiled. .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company , 1968 . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers and fly leafs. Some tearing and edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 857467

Bantam Books. Good+. 1970. Paperback. Clean pages and sound. Some moderate cover wear. Writing inside the front cover. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 302 pages .

Little Brown & Co (T). 1st printing of the 1st edition. Dust jacket covered with mylar jacket protector. Jacket is price clipped. Pages and page edges are foxed. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1983.

New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1970. Presumed first Bantam Edition, first printing. Mass market paperback. Good. [18], 302 pages. Maps, Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes Foreword, Acknowledgments, Chapter Notes, Bibliography, and an Index. Chapter 1 covers May 30-31, 1944; Chapter 2 covers December 1941-July 1943; Chapter 3 covers July 10-August 17, 1943; Chapter 4 covers September 1943; Chapter 5 covers October 1-December 20, 1943; Chapter 6 covers December 25, 1943-January 25, 1944; Chapter 7 covers February - May 1944; Chapter 8 covers May 1944; Chapter 9 covers June 5 and Beyond. Robert H. Adleman (May 7, 1919 - November 16, 1995) was an American novelist and historian. Adleman was a photographer and tail gunner in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he became a businessman and a historian, and began a collaboration with U.S. Army Colonel George Walton to write books about World War II, the most successful of which was 1966's The Devil's Brigade. A story about the 1st Special… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1968. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. F/G, used, hc, green boards with black cloth along spine, gilt text on spine, map end papers, 336 pages. Interior clean, no marks, pages near bright, binding tight. Slight edge wear to dj, small tear at head of spine and a small tear at the top edge of the lower near center, small scuff to top fore corner of the upper.

GB: Frewin, 1969. Red cloth, gilt. Book is in fine condition BUT top text edge is noticeably spotted / marked. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped and in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.. Hardback. VG+/VG Pc DW.

London: Leslie Frewin. Very Good/Very Good. 1969. Hard Cover. 8vo 0090983505 Dust jacket in clear protective sleeve, unclipped, minor loss to edges. Red cloth withbright gilt titling. No ownership inscription. illustrated with b/w photographs. Bibliography, index. xii,336 pages. George Walton The battle for Italy was probably the most controversial campaign of the Second World War. To this day, soldiers, historians, reporters and political leaders angrily debate whether the choice of that miserable arena was a bloody waste of men and material or was the sound result of a series of inevitable problems and decisions. The leaders of both sides have not escaped the puzzled stares of contemporary and succeeding generations. Was President Roosevelt a too-willing tool in what some have agreed was a Stalinist plot to expend Anglo-American resources? Was Field Marshal Albert Kesselring a military genius or an interfering optimist? Was Winston Churchill wrong in his assessment of the… Read More