execution private slovik hitherto secret de william bradford huie (18 résultats)

Etat : Fair. 1954. First Edition. 194 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Complete with All plates - 1 Loose from binding. Boards with rubbing, edge and corner wear, sunned spine and front edge, marks/scratches. Front Endpaper with spotting, Pages with Age discolouration, spotting/foxing type marks, tight binding a Good personal copy. **529g** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed.

Pocket Paperback. Etat : fair condition. Third Printing. pocket paperback, 152 pages, wraps, text darkened, covers somewhat worn and creased .Private Edward Slovik was executed for desertion in 1945, the first and only American soldier to be so executed since 1864.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Jacket by Peter Rudland (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket, small loss to top of spine, corners bruised and rubbed with small loss, some browning to spine and back jacket, some yellowing to page block. Not price clipped (12s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 195pp, illustrated. In August 1944, a drab convoy of raw recruits destined to join the 28th Division lumbered along a windy French road strewn with dead animals, shattered bodies, and burning equipment. One of those draftees was 24 year old Eddie Slovik, a petty thief from Detroit who had spent his youth in and out of reform schools. Eddie's luck had recently changed, however, with a steady factory job and marriage to a beautiful girl who gave Eddie hope and security for the first time in his life. But their honeymoon, like that of many other wartime newlyweds, was interrupted by the call to service. The convoy came under intense artillery fire, and in the confusion Slovik became separated from his unit. He joined a Canadian outfit and travelled with them before finally reporting to the 28th Division. He carried a rifle but no ammunition. He was assigned to a platoon but walked away. Refusing to fight, Slovik was arrested, court martialed, and condemned to death. Hundreds of soldiers were tried for desertion during World War II and sentenced to die, but only Eddie Slovik paid the price, supposedly as a deterrent, yet word of the nature of his death was never officially released. In 'The Execution of Private Slovik', considered to be among the best investigative books ever written, American journalist and writer William Bradford Huie (1910-86), reconstructs this entire story with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army in order to find out what made Eddie Slovik an unlikely pacifist and why the affair was covered up. Through interviews with those who knew him and the hundreds of letters to his wife, the author reveals a hard luck depression era kid who when faced with the reality of war realized that he simply could not kill another human being. Huie shows that Eddie Slovik's death has much to tell us about life and duty to one's country.

hard cover with dustjacket. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. First edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 195 pages VG/FR. Very good book in fair dust jacket with shelf wear and edge tears, several areas missing, gift inscription on front endpaper, light soiling to page edges.

Softcover. Etat : Very Good+. First Edition. Perfect bound green cardstock boards, clean with shelf wear to corners, fold to lower left corner. Book firm in binding, mild age toning to interior, 152 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Bookstore stamp to front endpaper. Else== Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages.

152 S. Orig.-Karton (Tb). Erste Ausgabe. - William Bradford Huie erzählt in diesem Werk den auf Tatsachen beruhende Fall des Soldaten Eddie Slovik, der 1945 als erster Amerikaner seit dem Bürgerkrieg wegen Fahnenflucht erschossen wurde. Er zeichnet so ein dringliches Bild von der Sinnlosigkeit des Krieges und möglicher Entmenschlichung durch die Institution Militär. - Einband etwas berieben; Kritzeleien auf dem Rückdeckel; Ecken und Kanten berieben und bestoßen; Name auf dem Titel; Seiten gebräunt.

195 pp, b&w photographic plates, edges mildly foxed, 4cm clean tear to top of d/j spine, else very good copy in like, price-clipped d/j. Shameful episode in U.S. Military history.

First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine in a good price-clipped dustjacket with a few small closed tears, some small professionally restored chips at the spine ends and a larger one (thumbnail-size) on the top corner of the back panel (not affecting any illustration or lettering). With 12 pages of b/w photos. The UK edition is scarcer than its US counterpart, and features a striking jacket illustration by Rudland.

1st edition dust jacket Very Good octavo 195pp., b/w pls., Slovik was one of 49 US soldiers to be sentenced to death for desertion, but the only one to be executed.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Small octavo. Condition: minor chipping, nicking, fading & wear to DJ; else very good in good DJ. Pages: viii, 247.

Etat : Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. (World War 2, Military Deserters, Biography).

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good+. Black cloth with bright yellow spine titles; 8.5 inches tall; 5-195 [1] pages; illustrated with 12 pages of b/w photographs. The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The Mylar protected dust jacket designed by Rudland is price-clipped and has loss on the spine tips and along the top front edge; the rear panel has toned. First Edition, First Printing. [British]. A detailed and powerful exploration of the only execution of an American soldier for desertion during World War II. Eddie Slovik, a troubled young man from Detroit, was executed in 1945 after refusing to return to combat. While hundreds of soldiers were sentenced to death for desertion, Slovik's sentence was uniquely carried out, intended as a deterrent during the war. Huie's book investigates the circumstances surrounding Slovik's trial and execution, shedding light on his life, motivations, and the decisions by military leadership, including General Dwight D. Eisenhower, to enforce his sentence. The work also critiques the use of Slovik as a symbol of discipline, exposing moral and systemic questions about military justice, societal expectations, and personal conviction in wartime. [Adapted from Online reviews] First Edition, First Printing. [British].

softcover. Etat : near fine. First edition. Octavo. 20cm x 13cm. Stiff red wrappers. 247pp. Light edge chipping . Advanced review copy. Advanced Review copy.

Mass Market Paperbook. Etat : Very Good-. 1st Paperback printing. Some scuffing along spine, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, store stamp on front end paper. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; Signet 1113, cover price 25c. Published simultaneously with the hardcover edition. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 152 pages; "Over 10,000,000 were inducted in the U. S. Armed Forces in World War II. Thousands deserted before the enemy. 2,864 tried by general court martial for this offense. Of 49 whose death sentences were approved, one was executed. " The tragic story of a man crushed in the conflict between fear and duty - one of the most dramatic and controversial books of our day. ".

Etat : very good, fair to good. Reprint Edition. 230, DJ in plastic sleeve, large tear in front DJ. This reprinted edition contains a new preface and an epilogue. Private Edward Slovik was executed for desertion in 1945, the first and only American soldier to be so executed since 1864.

hardcover. Etat : very good(+). Etat de la jaquette : very good. First. 247 pages. 8vo., red cloth in dust wrapper (wrapper a bit torn at edges and dust soiled on back cover). New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1954. A very good copy (+) in a very good dust wrapper. autographed on front free endpaper.

Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown and Company, 1954. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 247 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price present. Red boards stamped in black. Dust jacket worn along edges with chipping to extremities. A touch faded at spine. Amateur tape repair to jacket verso. Boards lightly edgeworn with a slight lean. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper removed with overzealous erasure by another previous owner. Pages otherwise unmarked.