Seaching for Charlie : In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar
by Scott, Tom
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1988516609
- ISBN 13
- 9781988516608
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Auckland: Upstart Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (2020). First Edition. Hardcover. 1988516609 . Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 368 pages + plates. Black boards with white lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 233 x 130mm. A biography. "Charles Upham was the most highly decorated soldier in the Commonwealth forces of WWII, and could arguably be called the bravest soldier of the war. An unassuming stock worker/ valuer at the beginning of the war, he stormed through Crete and the Western Desert amazing and confounding his comrades with his exploits. He won two Victoria Crosses (the only combat soldier ever to do so) and in the opinion of his superiors deserved many more. Captured, he became an escape artist and ended his war in the famous Colditz POW camp. Shy and reluctant to take credit for his actions, he deflected all praise onto his soldiers and was described as distraught that he had been honoured. He then farmed in North Canterbury until his death in 1994, avoiding the limelight wherever possible." .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23731
- Title
- Seaching for Charlie : In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC & Bar
- Author
- Scott, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1988516609
- ISBN 13
- 9781988516608
- Publisher
- Upstart Press
- Place of Publication
- Auckland
- Date Published
- (2020)
- Keywords
- 1988516609
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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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