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Back from Tobruk
by Croswell Bowen, Betsy Connor Bowen; Editor
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1597979856
- ISBN 13
- 9781597979856
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
$15.00$10.50
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About This Item
Washington, DC: Potomac Books , 2013 Potomac Books, Washington, DC. 2013. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: New. DJ: New; NOT Price Clipped ($29.95); slight bumping to rear lower tip. Blue boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 221 pp 8vo. The author, a photographer by trade, in 1941 took a WWII volunteer assignment with the American Field Service: volunteer ambulance drivers who served with the British Eighth Army in North Africa. This a long unpublished account of one man's journey across a world torn apart with only his camera and his moral convictions to guide him. Filled with many B&W photographs of the war in North Africa the book documents the brutality of was and the resilience of the human spirit. A clean pristine copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008926
- Title
- Back from Tobruk
- Author
- Croswell Bowen, Betsy Connor Bowen; Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1597979856
- ISBN 13
- 9781597979856
- Publisher
- Potomac Books
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- World War II, North Africa, Tobruk Libya, British Eighth Army, American Field Service, ambulance drivers, photographer, WWII photographer, combat photographs, pacifist nonviolence, contentious objector, Middle East, Egypt, field hospitals, Battle aid stat
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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