by William Linton Andrews:HAUNTING YEARS
- signed or inscribed book 2003, ISBN: 0131879626
Hardcover
New York: Ballantine Books, 2003 xxi, 309 pp., [16] pp. of plates, illus., maps; 25 cm. SIGNED and Inscribed by the Author: "Airborne all the way, Jim Megellas 'Maggie'."… More...
New York: Ballantine Books, 2003 xxi, 309 pp., [16] pp. of plates, illus., maps; 25 cm. SIGNED and Inscribed by the Author: "Airborne all the way, Jim Megellas 'Maggie'." A near-fine copy, top right corner lightly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as 'Maggie' to his fellow paratroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new 'home' for the duration. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside Naples. In October 1943, when most of the 82d departed Italy to prepare for the D-Day invasion of France, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, the Fifth Army commander, requested that the division's 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Maggie's outfit, stay behind for a daring new operation that would outflank the Nazis' stubborn defensive lines and open the road to Rome. On 22 January 1944, Megellas and the rest of the 504th landed across the beach at Anzio. Following initial success, Fifth Army's amphibious assault, Operation Shingle, bogged down in the face of heavy German counterattacks that threatened to drive the Allies into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Anzio turned into a fiasco, one of the bloodiest Allied operations of the war. Not until April were the remnants of the regiment withdrawn and shipped to England to recover, reorganize, refit, and train for their next mission. In September, Megellas parachuted into Holland along with the rest of the 82d Airborne as part of another star-crossed mission, Field Marshal Montgomery's vainglorious Operation Market Garden. Months of hard combat in Holland were followed by the Battle of the Bulge, and the long hard road across Germany to Berlin. Megellas was the most decorated officer of the 82d Airborne Division and saw more action during the war than most. Yet All the Way to Berlin is more than just Maggie's World War II memoir. Throughout his narrative, he skillfully interweaves stories of the other paratroopers of H Company, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The result is a remarkable account of men at war. / James Megellas was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. After the war he returned to civilian life. He eventually served in the U.S. Army's effort to aid the Republic of Vietnam in establishing an efficient infrastructure as head of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) in II Corps. He is now retired and lives with wife, Carole, near Dallas." - Publisher.. SIGNED. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible., Ballantine Books, 2003, G.P. Putnam's Sons--The Knickerbocker Press, 1918. Or a Militia? Lessons in War from the Past and the Present. Introduction by Maj.-Gen. Sir C. E. Callwell, K.C.B. Prussian officer's view of war and militia. Red boards with paste down white title on front and spine. Spine is faded. Pencil marks as marginalia throughout. Corners bumped. Page v. has open-weave-type hole in top corner (1" by 1/2") from unknown culprit. Nice copy of unusual book.. Hardcover. VG., G.P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press, 1918, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2006. CD-ROM. Very Good Condition. Multiple copies available this title. CD-ROM and booklet appear to be in good condition.The Access Code has been opened. Quantity Available: 3. ISBN: 0131879626. Inventory No: 1560789539. ., Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006, Then began, after a single shot that appeared to be a signal, the hell fury of bombardment from 480 guns and howitzers. The noise almost split our wits......There was no difficulty in making out the German trenches. They had become long clouds of smoke and dust, flashing continuously with shell-bursts, and with enormous masses of trench material and bodies sailing high above the smoke cloud. Thus does the author describe the opening barrage of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on 10th March 1915. William Linton Andrews, a Yorkshire man living and working in Dundee, was News Editor of the morning Dundee Advertiser when war broke out. Within a couple of days he was one of a crowd swarming outside the local recruiting office trying to enlist, and when he finally succeeded a few days later he discovered he was not the regular soldier he aspired to be but a Territorial. He tried to transfer but gave up when a dozen or so of his colleagues from the paper marched in and joined him in the 1/4th Black Watch. On 26th February 1915 the battalion arrived in France and joined the Bareilly Brigade of the 7th (Meerut) Division in the Indian Corps and within a few days the battalion was in action at Neuve Chapelle, the first British offensive of the war. For nearly three years Linton served in the trenches, rising to the rank of sergeant, and when he went home in mid-January 1918 to attend an officers training course, he was one of the very few men, possibly the only one, who had been with the battalion all the time. Festubert, Loos, the Somme and Third Ypres - Andrews was in them all and survived them all. As a journalist he has a eye for detail and a facility with the pen that tells a wonderful story. In my own copy of the book there is an inscription in the authorÕs handwriting, signed by him; it reads: Written lest others forget our comrades, for we never shall. 2001. SB. N & M reprint (original pub 1930). 288pp.<
