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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. New York:: Hippocrene Books, 1983. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Corners are NOT bumped. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (12.95). NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the author of the book's Foreword, Robert M. White II, President, Gen. Douglas MacArthur Foundation. This is a first-hand look at MacArthur, up close and personal, during the last two years of WWII -- the Philippine Campaigns, the march toward Japan, and the signing of the Japanese surrender. As General Douglas MacArthur's personal physician, aide-de-camp and right-hand man, the book's author, "Doc" Egeberg, reveals the man behind the general's stars. Illustrated with map and photographs, throughout. Index. Bound in the original blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Foreword by Robert M. White II, President, MacArthur Memorial Foundation: "Nobody has written a book like this about General MacArthur. That's because nobody could. Nobody else was as close to the General during those tragic and glory years of World War II. Was General MacArthur really that hard to know? -- Not as an officer, not as a commander. He was what he was, as a soldier -- tall, handsome, sure, keen, articulate, with awesome presence. But there was a difference between MacArthur the commander and the man. As a man, he kept to himself; he was withdrawn somehow, at arm's length, even remote. All of which adds up to being. shy. I hesitate to use the word, but that is the way he seemed." . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Robert M. White. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. (xii), 242pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hippocrene Books, NY. The memoirs of General Douglas MacArthur's personal physician from February 1944 through the end of WWII. Egeberg, a non-career officer, was selected to care for the general and his staff. Very good copy of the first edition in a good+ dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor wear on the back cover. 242 pages.…