The Chiefs of Naval Operations.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, [1980]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 448pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Item #41070
ISBN: 0870211153
A superb and tight first edition of this collection of biographical essays -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is a 5" X 3" heavy stock card signed boldly in black ballpoint by Elmore R. Zumwalt, n.p., dated 1986 September 4 in his hand. Fine. Zumwalt was the 19th and final of the naval figures discussed in this reference. Zumwalt (1920-2000) was the American navy's youngest four-star admiral ever and the commander in Vietnam who ordered the use of Agent Orange -- from which his own son contracted cancer. Zumwalt's original transmittal envelope is laid in as well.
Price: $75.00