Item #028819 Battlewagon; of the Nine Battleships at Pearl Harbor, One Got Underway. Wallace Louis Excum.
Battlewagon; of the Nine Battleships at Pearl Harbor, One Got Underway
Battlewagon; of the Nine Battleships at Pearl Harbor, One Got Underway
Battlewagon; of the Nine Battleships at Pearl Harbor, One Got Underway

Battlewagon; of the Nine Battleships at Pearl Harbor, One Got Underway

New York; (1974): Vantage Press. Octavo. Item #028819

179 pages. Inscribed by the author to John and Liz Differnbach, booksellers, whose interest in life and their experiences of life as sea led to their friendship, inscribed August 2, 1977. Much in this unique novel by a writer who knew the sea and focuses on the quite ordinary bluejackets assigned to the battleship Nevada. As J.P. Morse, Commander, US Navy writes: "Fast-moving and straightforward. Battleship could have been written only by someone who was there." Book has hundreds of favorable reviews including one by Bob Laxalt of the University of Nevada an expert on the Nevada ship. Page of reviews taped in on the verso of the half-title, otherwise a near fine copy in light rubbed, unclipped pictorial dust jacket.

Price: $85.00

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