Author: TAYLOR, Maxwell
Title: Responsibility and Response
Description: New York, Harper & Row, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering. xi, 84pp. Very good. Jacket flap copy neatly affixed to rear endpaper. Tight and nice first edition of this slim essay collection by this American army general (1901-87) who influenced American military strategy from World War Two through the Vietnam War and served as chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1962 to 1964. Front flyleaf bears a fine archival decorative-edge bookplate bearing the bold signature in black fineline of JOHN M. TAYLOR, the general son's and a noted author and historian in his own right, whose books include a biography of his father. Discreet ex-institutional copy, with almost no markings. Lacks jacket, else an attractive first with unusual autograph addition. .

Keywords: Military History


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