Description
Signed copy of General Wainwright’s Story, inscribed to a fellow serviceman.
Octavo, [5], 314pp. Brown cloth, title in gilt. Solid text block, rubbing to tips of spine, wear to front board. Lacking first edition statement on copyright page. Faint offsetting on front free endpaper. In the publisher’s dust jacket, partially price clipped.
Signed on the front free endpaper: “To Maj. J.T. Hall / Sincerely / J.M. Wainwright Gen. U.S.A. (Retired)”
General Jonathan M. Wainwright was the Commander of Allied Forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to Japan in the early days of World War II. Upon the surrender of the Philippines and Corregidor, Wainwright became the highest ranking American prisoner of war during World War II. He was released in August of 1945. He received the Medal of Honor and returned to the United States with a ticker-tape parade in New York City.
