THE CAPTAIN WAS A DOCTOR: The Long War and Uneasy Peace of POW John Reid
by Jonathan Reid
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1459747216
- ISBN 13
- 9781459747210
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is the "unforgettable", "riveting" first-rate biography of Dr. John Reid, a Canadian doctor who was serving in Hong Kong in 1941. After the Japanese victory, he spent a year in a Hong Kong prison camp before being sent to Japan as a slave labourer. His efforts to save his men were heroic, but he would never be the same. He was a complex man--an outstanding doctor and war hero but, after returning home, a damaged and deeply troubled man. It was written by his son, the journalist Jonathan Reid.
It was published in 2020--I don't believe it was issued in hardcover, so this is a first edition.
Trade paperback. 455 pages including photographs. Two faint dogears, the last at page 71. Tiny bits of shelfwear.
Otherwise pristine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1055
- Title
- THE CAPTAIN WAS A DOCTOR
- Author
- Jonathan Reid
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1459747216
- ISBN 13
- 9781459747210
- Publisher
- Dundurn
- Place of Publication
- Canada
- Date Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 455
- Keywords
- Battle of Hong Kong, Japanese POW, Army Doctor
- Bookseller catalogs
- War Stories; Military History; Canadian History; World History; Biography, Autobiography, True Stories; Asian/Eastern Art, Culture, History;
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...