World War II: Band of Brothers Signed Book - Paratrooper! Signed book: Paratrooper!. First edition. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.25 x 9.5, 717 pages. Signed and inscribed on the title page by the author, Gerard M. Devlin, and signed on the first free end page by fifteen WWII paratroopers, including eleven Easy Company 'Band of Brothers' veterans: 'Wild Bill' Guarnere, Earl 'One Lung' McClung, Lynn 'Buck' Compton, Ed Tipper, Forrest Guth, Edward 'Babe' Heffron, Ed Mauser, Don Malarkey, Brad Freeman, Clancy Lyall, Al Mampre, James 'Pee Wee' Martin, Bob Noody, Robert L. Williams, and Gordon Cullings; a bookplate signed by Ralph Spina is also loosely laid in. In fine condition, with a few nicks to edges of the jacket.

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