Description
Signed limited edition of A Soldier’s Story by Omar N. Bradley, inscribed to First Army Signal Officer, Col. Grant A. Williams.
Octavo, xix, 618pp, [2]. Beige cloth binding, top edge gilt. Title printed on spine and author’s facsimile signature on cover. Lacking the publisher’s slipcase.
From a limited edition of 750 copies, this copy being number 484, signed by General Omar Bradley on the limitation page. Additional inscription on the title page: “For Colonel Grant A. Williams / With pleasant memories of our service together in II Corps and First Army. Omar N. Bradley.”
Colonel Grant A. Williams served as the First U.S. Army’s signal officer, with responsibility for all signal communications and critical planning for the D-Day invasion. In 1944, signal communications included an array of 42 operations and tasks such as wire and radio communications and frequency management, the publication and dissemination of Signal Operating Instructions (SOIs), cryptographic operations (ensuring all code and equipment were properly distributed, used and superseded when necessary), messenger service to include those carried by pigeons, and combat photography. (Signal Security, Buckhout, 98) After the war, Col. Grant worked in Eastern Europe for the Vogeler Telephone Company, a firm with close ties to the CIA.
