History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vol. 1 : The Formative Years..

Description: Fully titled, History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Vol 1 The Formative Years 1947-1950. Authored by Steven L. Rearden, the General Editor is Alfred Goldberg, and the publisher is the Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Washington DC. This First Edition was published in 1984. The book is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Dust jacket with light edge wear, a few small tears, no chips, nicely encased in a mylar jacket. Clean orange cloth boards with the Defense Department emblem on front cover, clear spine lettering. Decorative endpapers, 667 clean and solidly bound pages with no interior marks, two sections of glossy photos. A NICE COPY. I believe there were 9 volumes published through 2017; this is Volume 1 covering 1947 - 1950. From the front flap of the dust jacket of this Volume 1: "The first volume in an important new series that will provide a comprehensive history of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). The Formative Years traces the evolution of OSD from its establishment in September 1947 to the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950. As the title indicates, these were years of beginnings that ushered in the present-day era of service unification and saw the development of policies and programs that would have lasting impact on national security. A richly documented volume, it draws on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources to present a commanding account of the evolution of both defense organization and national security policy during the critical post-World War II years." B109

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