The hardcover has shelf wear on the corners/edges, a small indentation on front cover, slight stain on back cover and without a dust jacket. The page binding is good, the front cover/textblock hinge is weak. The pages are clean, no underlining, writing, or coloring. 📚 Check out my shop for more We Were There & Landmark Books! Synopsis | The first-hand account Doolittle Raid over Tokyo – the secret preparations, the raid itself and the almost unbelievable adventures of the airmen in the weeks that followed – is one of the greatest stories of American bravery and ingenuity that has ever been written. Ted Lawson piloted one of the planes that roared over Tokyo. In the subsequent crack-up on the Chinese coast, he sustained injuries that ultimately cost him a leg. The story of his rescue, told simply and directly, makes thrilling and moving reading, serving again to remind all of us of the great acts of sacrifice and heroism performed by the members of our armed forces during World War II. Originally published for adults in 1943, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo became a best-seller overnight, and later was made into a great motion picture. Voted by many teachers and librarians throughout the country as a book that deserves to be read by boys and girls, it has been carefully edited to conform with that standards already established in the Landmark Series. Landmark Books | Each Landmark book brings to life a great event or personality in our nation's past. Each is designed to be rich, rewarding reading, capable of stirring the heart as well as the mind. Each is intended to arouse in the reader not only an interest in the course of history but also an understanding of how the democracy that is our heritage was forged. b-083