Combat, European Theater, World War II

New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., Inc, 1963. Dell First Edition [An Original Volume]. Eighth printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. Good. Robert Shula (Cover painting). 382, [2] pages. Cover has some wear, soiling and creases. Maps. Footnotes. Includes Introduction by Merle Miller; The Chase of the Bismarck; Behind Rommel's Lines; Attack at EL Alamein; Raid on Regensburg; The Battle for Cassino; Anzio to Rome; Air Drop on Normandy; Assault from the Sea; Breakout at St. Lo; Flame Thrower; In the Huertgen Forest; The Incredible Patrol; Bastogne; Hide and Seek in the Reichswald; The Capture of Remagen Bridge; Smashing the Siegfried Line; and The Last of It. Among the contribution authors are: Russell Grenfell, Beirne Lay, Fred Majdalany, Eric Sevareid, Alan Moorehead, and Chester Wilmot. This anthology covers from El Alamein to the breaching of the Siegfried Line, here are the major battles, unforgettably recorded by the men who fought them. Mr. Congdon who started out as a messenger at a small New York agency, developed an enviable reputation as a skilled editor, tough negotiator and shrewd judge of talent. In 1944 an editor at Collier's impressed by the editing Mr. Congdon had done on several stories the magazine had bought, hired him as an associate fiction editor. A year and a half late he was hired by Simon and Schuster as an editor for its Venture Press, recently established to introduce new writers and published writers whose work had been neglected. While still a young editor at Simon and Schuster, he tuned in to the early stories of Ray Bradbury, who became one of his first clients and very close friend, after he set up as a full-time literary agent in 1947, and who dedicated his novel "Fahrenheit 451" to Mr. Congdon. In 1966 he caused a stir in the publishing world, and precipitated a celebrated lawsuit by Jacqueline Kennedy, when after spirited bargaining he sold Look Magazine the serial rights to "The Death of a President," William Manchester's study of John F. Kennedy's assassination, for more that $600,000. In 1983 Mr. Congdon started his own agency, Don Congdon Associates, which is Pacific Theater, World War II" (1959).