Description
Signed first edition of Wedemeyer Reports! by General Albert C. Wedemeyer.
Octavo, xii, [2], 497pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stated “First Edition” on the copyright page. Twelve photographic pages at center of volume. Solid text block, dust remnants to top edge, a near fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $6.00 retail price on the front flap, light wear to edges, soiling to rear panel, chipping at the spine, a very good example. This copy is signed on the front free endpaper: “A.C. Wedemeyer / 9 Feb 59.”
General Albert C. Wedemeyer (1897-1989) was critical to the planning of Allied operations during World War II. He later commanded U.S. forces in China. A graduate of West Point and the German Kriegsakademie, he contributed to the 1941 “Victory Program,” which laid out U.S. war production and mobilization strategy. During the war he served as chief planner under General George C. Marshall, then succeeded Joseph Stilwell as commander of U.S. forces in China and chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek, overseeing the training and reorganization of Nationalist armies in the war’s final phase. He retired as a four-star general in 1951.
