Verlag: Dell Pub Co, 1987
ISBN 10: 0440159733 ISBN 13: 9780440159735
Anbieter: Kollectible & Rare Books, Bartlesville, OK, USA
Erstausgabe
Paperback. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. Edge wear. Tanning along fore edges. Edges are sunned. Rubbing and fading to covers. Remainder mark on upper edge.
Verlag: Macmillan, New York, 1986
Anbieter: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First Edition. Octavo, 224pp., illustrated. Edges foxed, else a very good copy. In a near fine dust jacket, toned along the extemities. This copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the elder Zumwalt on the half-title page: "To Bill Yowell, a true friend and good neighbor, with respect. Bud. E. R. Zumwalt, Jr." The dark, but honest memoir of this military father and son. The father, an Admiral in the U. S. Navy, was one of the principal figures involved in the decision to use Agent Orange in Vietnam. His son, a Lieutenant on a patrol boat, was exposed to the defoliant during the war, which he believed was responsible for his cancer diagnosis a decade later. His son--the admiral's grandson--was born with learning disabilities, and the family also believed, convincingly, that Agent Orange was responsible. The book is an honest, difficult reckoning with the harsh truth. Lieutenant Zumwalt died two years after publication.