Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First trade edition. 8vo. xiv, (ii), 559 pp. Great association copy, inscribed by Eisenhower to American fighter ace and Medal of Honor recipient Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, "with warm regard/from your devoted friend/Dwight D. Eisenhower", on mounted book-plate on front free endpaper. Profusely illustrated with maps and photographs. Original tan cloth, stamped in black; all edges trimmed; pictorial endpapers; dust-jacket wanting. A near-fine copy.