Chronology 1941-1945

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Office of the Chief of Military History Department of the Army , 1960. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, some light outer page edge soil, overall a very crisp and clean first edition! 660 very clean, unmarked and uncreased historical pages! Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and a gilt American eagle symbol on the front cover! "The relationship of events in time is the essence of history. Chronology: 1941-1945 establishes the sequence of events from the time the first bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 until the instrument of surrender was signed aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. The other volumes in the series UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II rcount in detil the various aspects of a complex global war----individual campaigns, grand strategy, logistics, support, and so forth. In this volume the reader can see the events of the war day by day in their sequence and contemporaneity, measure the scope of the global struggle, and begin to grasp the relation of the innumerable parts to the whole.......Washington, D.C. 23 June 1958"----from the Foreword by R. W. Stephens. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.