[Paris]: Editions Odile Pathé, (1964).
Price: $250.00
Softcover. Reprint. 16mo. 198pp. Text in English. Illustrated. printed wrappers. Paper toned, binding cocked with wear and a tiny stain, one plate and adjackent page foxed and binding neatly strengthened in one place, sound and near very good. Owner name of James J. Coyle inside front wrap; the book has been Inscribed to him twice by the author's son, M. Paul Renaud: "In friendly Hommage to James J. Coyle, on the 25th anniversary of D-Day. With all my gratitude. M. Renaud 6th of June 1969"; and "August 21 - 1984. Your friend who will never forget. Paul Renaud." The book also appears to be Signed by Alexandre Renaud's wife, Simone.
The recipient is almost certainly (at the time) Second Lieutenant James J. Coyle, who as part of E Company, 505th Parachute Infantry, 82nd Airborn Division, parachuted in about ¼ North of Sainte-Mère-Église on D Day (via the Cornelius Ryan WWII papers at Ohio University library).
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