Bücher von Walter D. Edmonds

They Fought With What They Had, first published in 1951, is the authoritative account of the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Philippines and on Java (Indonesia) in late 1941 and 1942. Unprepared for the Japanese onslaught, American forces had to fight with what little they had in terms of functioning aircraft, adequate munitions and replacement parts, and limited manpower. In the face of these overwhelming odds, however, a valiant effort was made to resist the Japanese invaders, which served to buy time for the fresh troops and new equipment that would soon flow into the region. Author Walter Edmonds does a masterful job of incorporating army reports and hundreds of interviews conducted with the combatants into this comprehensive, highly readable account of U.S. Army Air Forces in the south Pacific at the start of World War II. Illustrated with maps.Author Walter Edmonds (1903-1998) was best known for his historical novels including Drums Along the Mohawk, published in 1936.

Edmund Wilson felt this collection of twenty-four stories, originally published in 1934, contains some of Walter Edmonds' best work. The AtlanticMonthly wrote thar "Upstate New York has provided Edmonds with an inexhaustible store of characters one would like co know." A number of the stories were award-winnrng and appeared in such collections as Best Stories of 1929 and The O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories."Black Wolf," The End of the Towpath," Death of Red Peril"-these and ochers faithfully depict an era and region for which Edmonds became chiefliterary spokesman. Episodic and anecdotal, chey catch in various ways something of the nuances of real life as it was in the days when the Erie Canaloffered a passage west for many travelers and settlers and a livelihood for many more.