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LEA, HOMER (1876-1912) The valor of ignorance. Introduction by Clare Boothe.
New York Harper & Brothers, 1942 Hard Cover
344 pages, 11 maps & charts, cloth, reprint. Former owner's signature on front blank endpaper otherwise very good. Contains introductions by Lt. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee and Maj. Gen. J.P. Story. A remarkable work by a remarkable man. In this his most famous work he warns about Japanese plans to attack the United States and he predicted the landings in the Philippines and recognized the strategic importance of Hawaii and Alaska. Some thirty years later most of his predictions would come to pass. The new introduction by Miss Boothe contains a long biographical sketch of Lea. It took WWII and the threat of Japanese arms to bring out this new edition for propaganda purposes.
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50.00 USD
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