George E Koskimaki (55 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail. Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company and battery commanders to chaplains, surgeons, enlisted medics, platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop - and yet managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country of Normandy. D-Day with the Screaming Eagles does not attempt to glamorise the D-Day landings or apply the Hollywood gloss of recent productions. Koskimaki has interviewed thousands of veterans over many years of researching and writing about the Screaming Eagles; this book stands as a faithful record of what it was like to land on the Normandy beaches.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail. Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company and battery commanders to chaplains, surgeons, enlisted medics, platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop - and yet managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country of Normandy. D-Day with the Screaming Eagles does not attempt to glamorise the D-Day landings or apply the Hollywood gloss of recent productions. Koskimaki has interviewed thousands of veterans over many years of researching and writing about the Screaming Eagles; this book stands as a faithful record of what it was like to land on the Normandy beaches.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail. Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company and battery commanders to chaplains, surgeons, enlisted medics, platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop - and yet managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country of Normandy. D-Day with the Screaming Eagles does not attempt to glamorise the D-Day landings or apply the Hollywood gloss of recent productions. Koskimaki has interviewed thousands of veterans over many years of researching and writing about the Screaming Eagles; this book stands as a faithful record of what it was like to land on the Normandy beaches.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Many professional historians have recorded the actions of D-Day but here is an account of the airborne actions as described by the actual men themselves in eyewitness detail. Participants range from division command personnel to regimental, battalion, company and battery commanders to chaplains, surgeons, enlisted medics, platoon sergeants, squad leaders and the rough, tough troopers who adapted quickly to fighting in mixed, unfamiliar groups after a badly scattered drop - and yet managed to gain the objectives set for them in the hedgerow country of Normandy. D-Day with the Screaming Eagles does not attempt to glamorise the D-Day landings or apply the Hollywood gloss of recent productions. Koskimaki has interviewed thousands of veterans over many years of researching and writing about the Screaming Eagles; this book stands as a faithful record of what it was like to land on the Normandy beaches.…

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Hell's Highway is a history, most of which has never before been written. It is adventure recorded by those who lived it and put into context by an author who was also there. It is human drama on an enormous scale, told through the personal stories of 612 contributors of written and oral accounts of the Screaming Eagles' part in the attempt to liberate the Netherlands. George Koskimaki is an expert in weaving together individual recollections to make a compelling and uniquely first hand account of the bravery and deprivations suffered by the troops, their hopes, fears, triumphs and tragedies as well as those of Dutch civilians caught up in the action. There have been many books published on Operation Market Garden and there will surely be more. This book, however, gets to the heart of the action. The big picture which most histories paint, here is just the context for the real history on the ground.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The cover is maroon. B/W maps and photos; footnotes; bib.; index. The front endpaper and the half-title page each have an embossed, personal library seal. The half-title page has a gift inscription. One board corner is a little bumped. Text block ends: About a fourth of the top one has light stains. The foredge has light foxing. The bottom end has a 1/12 in. stain. DJ: The publisher's price is covered with ink. The spine panel has faded and has a 3/4 in. chip. The back flap has a small, light water stain and has a 1/4 in. chip on the fold. Scans e-mailed upon request.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback Edition. The story of the 101st Airborne's Holland Campaign, from September to November of 1944, with their success leading to the Allied Army being able to advance swiftly into Germany. Illustrated. Book.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine. Bright and attractive mass market paperback. Very nice copy. Illustrated (illustrator).

Casemate first edition (originally published in 1989). [12], viii, 484 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, spine head bumped with light creasing across tops of front and rear panels, mild vertical crease to rear panel. Black boards. Non-authorial ink gift inscription on front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. ISBN 1932033068.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine. Bright and attractive mass maret paperback. 2007. Very nice copy. Illustrated (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cover and dustjacket have minor wear to spine ends. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 453 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

HC. 484pp ISBN 1932033068 First published in 1989. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) - closed tear on dustjacket. B&W illustrations (illustrator).

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. very clean softcover. no marks. clean text. solid binding. .very light wear. ISBN matches listing Fast service with confirmation, no international or priority orders over 4lbs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Third edition, hardcover, has previous owner's note to first free endpage and pastedown, vertical crease and slight lean to spine, light bumps to spine ends and lower corners, and some light soiling to edges of text block, otherwise solid VG copy in like dustjacket which has bumps to top of spine and corners, wear to top edge with small closed tears, light soiling and rubbing.…

Condition: Very Good. Northville, 1989. Glossy illustrated paper covers; vertical crease down entire front cover; mild wear at edges and corners; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; signed by author on half-title page; interior clean and unmarked; 453 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Edition. ISBN 0686227840. Hardback. Very Good condition book, with slight dustsoiling to edges of interior pages, in a Very Good Condition dustjacket with minor chips, small closed tears, rubs and creases to edges, slight browning and dustsoiling to jacket edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. Third edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Casemate.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Near Very Good. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a subtle lean to the binding, which has a bit of flex but remains solid. The book also has light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, a shallow ding to the upper edge of the back cover, mild smudging to the edges of the text block, and a previous owner's notes in blue pen to the front end pages. Overall, a Near Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has chipped bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, creased tears to the upper edge of the back cover, a 2" split along the rear hinge, and rubbing with a touch of sunning to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar. Barnette, Peter (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. A first edition book. Near fine, in a near fine DW. "Written shortly after the war - but never before published - Bowen's narrative is immediate, direct and compelling. His account, one of the few by a member of a glider regiment, is a brutal insight into the battlefields of World War II and a vivid recreation of just what life was like in an elite unit.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. 416 pp., illus., maps, two pages near middle of book are damp-wrinkled, covers shelf-worn, front free-end page is neatly cut out, jacket is badly chipped at extremities and has some internal tape repairs. Jacket now in clear mylar protector.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Second edition. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Head of spine has a small bump. Crease to back lower corner of cover. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on half-title page. 453 p. w/ illustrations, bibliography, index, and interesting, unusual maps of different actions. A history "on the ground" of the aactions of the 101st Airborne division in Operation Market Garden, with extensive quote from interviews by the author with many members of the unit.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good -. (2003), 484pp, illus., maps, light shelfwear to cover, slight rubbing & edgewear to dj, contents clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. 2nd. 1970; Madelia; second edition; *image different than dust jacket*; blue illustrated glossy paper dust jacket with black titles; dust jacket contains rubbing and wear; dust jacket contains chips and tears; author inscription to Lee R. Parrish and signature on ffep; interior clean and unmarked; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 431 pages. Signed by Author.…