Prisoner of Death: Courage & Survival Under the Third Reich
by Palmer, Graham
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Very Good
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Patrick Stephens Ltd. Bound in clean black cloth, with bright, silver titles to spine, this 1990 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG wrapper (unclipped). Inscribed by author on FFEP as follows" Very many thanks, Pip, for your invaluble support and encouragement". Pip is Captain Philip Gardner, VC, M.C., 4th Royal Tank Regiment, who wrote the Forward to this book, and whose bookplate is fixed to front endpaper. 215pp with 14 Chapters, 18 photographs and Index. Made prisoner in the early part of WW2, Palmer met by chance a Nazi general who claimed, in 1940, to have been appointed Gauliter for Sussex.An interesting association item. Condition VG . Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 1990.
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- Bookseller
- Camillas Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0011269
- Title
- Prisoner of Death: Courage & Survival Under the Third Reich
- Author
- Palmer, Graham
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Patrick Stephens Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- WW2 Prisoner Memoirs: Signed & Inscribed
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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About the Seller
Camillas Bookshop
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Eastbourne, East Sussex
About Camillas Bookshop
Camilla's Bookshop is a large secondhand and antiquarian bookstore situated in the resort town of Eastbourne.We have more than 500,000 books in all categories. Our specialities include: armed forces, transport, travel, politics, history, literature (several thousand novels including modern firsts), religion, esoteric & occult and art.Shop hours are 10:00 - 17:00, excepting Sundays and Bank Holidays.Unfortunately, we do not ship to Denmark.
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- FFEP
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- VG
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- First Edition
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