CRUSADE IN EUROPE

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner inscription from 1948 on the blank recto of the limitation page. Near Fine in original acetate which has some foxing and short tears and a Near Fine slipcase with a little wear to the outside edges. First Edition preceding the trade edition. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Copy #89 of 1426 deluxe numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the facsimile page of the D-Day Order to send the troops to storm the beaches of Normandy, which begins: "You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you."