Description
Signed first edition of Dereliction of Duty by H.R. McMaster.
Octavo, xviii, 446pp. Red hardcover, black cloth spine, title in silver on spine. Stated “first edition” on copyright page, with full number line. In publisher’s dust jacket, price clipped, light shelf wear, otherwise a near fine example. Inscribed by the author: “For Eric, With all best wishes. Good Luck! H.R. McMaster. Fort Irwin, CA. Oct. 1998.”
Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster wrote this book, Dereliction of Duty, in 1997, as part of his master’s thesis at the University of North Carolina. He called the loss in Vietnam a “uniquely human failure,” with the war being lost in Washington, D.C., not the battlefields of Vietnam. In 2017, McMaster was asked to serve as the 26th National Security Advisor for President Donald Trump.
