Day of Infamy~Walter Lord~1957~True Stated First Edition~Very Good Condition~Rare~Vintage~Free Shipping

Day of Infamy~Walter Lord~1957~True Stated First Edition~Very Good Condition~Rare~Vintage~Free Shipping.

This is a rare copy of this collectible book that is a true stated first edition (see photo of copyright page). The dust jacket is in fair to good condition. The book is in very good condition. Minor cover edge wear. No markings or inscriptions. Pages are clean. Binding is tight. A true find. Would make a great collectible gift book for a history buff.

Lord wrote, or edited and annotated 11 bestselling books on such diverse subjects as the Attack on Pearl Harbor (Day of Infamy, 1957), the Battle of Midway (Incredible Victory, 1967), the Battle of the Alamo (A Time to Stand, 1961), the Battle of Baltimore (The Dawn’s Early Light, 1972), Arctic exploration (Peary to the Pole, 1963), pre-World War I America (The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War, 1960), Coastwatchers (Lonely Vigil, 1977), the Dunkirk evacuation (The Miracle of Dunkirk, 1982), and the civil rights struggle (The Past That Would Not Die, 1965.

A Night to Remember, about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, became a bestseller in 1955 and was made into a popular 1958 British movie of the same name. The historian tracked down 63 Titanic survivors and wrote a dramatic, minute-by-minute account of the ocean liner’s sinking during her maiden voyage. Lord’s knowledge of the Titanic catastrophe achieved considerable renown, and he frequently lectured at meetings of the Titanic Historical Society. In his final years, Lord wrote another book about the Titanic titled The Night Lives On: Thoughts, Theories and Revelations about the Titanic, published in 1986, a year after the wreck of the Titanic was discovered and interest in the Titanic renewed again. In the next decade, Lord served as a consultant to director James Cameron during the filming of Titanic (1997). The sequel documentary to Cameron’s film Titanic, Ghosts of the Abyss (2003), was dedicated to Lord’s memory. From Wikipedia

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