The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop; Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945
by Dunlop, E. E. (Weary)
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0140128611
- ISBN 13
- 9780140128611
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About This Item
Penguin Books, Ringwood, Victoria, 1990. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. foreword by Colonel Sir Laurens van der Post, introduction by author, four appendices, glossary and index. The text is illustrated with eight, of eight pages each, of black-and-white photography or illustrations. Colour photographic card cover white coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the backstrip. The diaries of the author, who, when Singapore fell in 1942, became a prisoner of war. These are his unsentimental, heartbreaking, inspiring and human reminiscences of a time and place etched in infamy, but, as Donald Stuart recalls on the rear panel "... When despair and death reached for us, Weary Dunlop stood fast, a lighthouse of sanity in a universe of madness and suffering." Minor rubbing to the book edges and panels. Browning of the textblock edges and pages. Size: Mid Sized Paperback. 476 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Prisoner of War; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0140128611. ISBN/EAN: 9780140128611. Inventory No: 0263171. . 9780140128611
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0263171
- Title
- The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop; Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945
- Author
- Dunlop, E. E. (Weary)
- Illustrator
- Photographic and Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140128611
- ISBN 13
- 9780140128611
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Ringwood, Victoria
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- BZDB2 E. E. Dunlop -- Weary  diaries, prisoner of war, Burma-Thailand Railway  1942-1945, medical Biography & Autobiography; Prisoner of War; Military & Warfare. Photographic and Illustrations Unbranded ISBN: 0140128611
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...