Author: DOOLEY, Thomas A.
Title: Deliver Us from Evil: The Story of Viet Nam's Flight to Freedom
Description: New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 214pp. Illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Jacket complete and presentable but edgeworn, with small edge chips (mostly at spine head/foot) and expert archival mends on verso. Attractive and tight early (not first) printing of the famed U.S. Navy doctor's bestselling first book -- and best of all, it is signed by him large and bold in black ink on front pastedown. Dooley (1927-61) served in Southeast Asia in the early years of the Vietnam War; after leaving the Navy under hazy circumstances, his anti-communist and humanitarian activities such as ministering to refugees, co-founding a hospital and more earned him worldwide fame and he died of cancer at the age of 34; later revelations that he had been recruited by the CIA and that many of the blood-curdling atrocities in this book were exaggerations and even CIA-provided fictions greatly tarnished his image. Signed copies of this controversial book that established his fame and led to his posthumous undoing are quite scarce. .
Keywords: Military History
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Title: Deliver Us from Evil: The Story of Viet Nam's Flight to Freedom
Description: New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 214pp. Illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Jacket complete and presentable but edgeworn, with small edge chips (mostly at spine head/foot) and expert archival mends on verso. Attractive and tight early (not first) printing of the famed U.S. Navy doctor's bestselling first book -- and best of all, it is signed by him large and bold in black ink on front pastedown. Dooley (1927-61) served in Southeast Asia in the early years of the Vietnam War; after leaving the Navy under hazy circumstances, his anti-communist and humanitarian activities such as ministering to refugees, co-founding a hospital and more earned him worldwide fame and he died of cancer at the age of 34; later revelations that he had been recruited by the CIA and that many of the blood-curdling atrocities in this book were exaggerations and even CIA-provided fictions greatly tarnished his image. Signed copies of this controversial book that established his fame and led to his posthumous undoing are quite scarce. .
Keywords: Military History
Price: US$ 295.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 50980
- Book number: 50980
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