Isbn: 9780241020012 - hostages to fortune (5 résultats)

hardcover. Etat : Good. Acceptable Jacket. The jacket has a Sellotape repair Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Olive green boards with price clipped jacket which has a tape repaired tear on bottom inside about an inch long, small tears top of spine and back top, no missing pieces, crease on back flap; Illustrated endboards of map of area; Discoloured pages but overall clean, free of any writing; 175 pages with index. An account of prisoners of war from The Fall of Hong Kong; to the horrors of Shamshuipo Camp to the final days of war. …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, 1/2" tear bottom front panel of dustjacket.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Map endpapers; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pages; "December 7 1941 was the Day of Infamy which saw the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour; the next morning the target was Hong Kong. After 17 days of vicious fighting the peacetime garrison - grossly outnumbered, sleepless and near to starvation - surrendered on Christmas Day. The next three and a half years they spent in the living hell of Shamshuipo Camp, then aboard the hell-ship Lisbon Maru and then in the final hell of Kobe on the Japanese mainland - 'Hostages to Fortune' as their ill-fated British military commander, Major-General Maltby referred to them." (Jacket blurb).…

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. 175 pages. cover worn, ex-library.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Olive green cloth bound, hardback book with gilt titles running along the spine. Comes with nice dust jacket. This book is in really good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. First published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton in 1971, First Edition. 175 pages all intact and nice tight binding. All pages, text, illustrations and maps are in good, clean, readable order. Hint of red colour to top of pages. December 7th 1941, was the Day of Infamy which saw the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour: the next morning the target was Hong Kong. After seventeen days of vicious fighting the peacetime garrison-grossly outnumbered, sleepless and near to starvation-surrendered on Christmas Day. During the the battle Major general Maltby, the ill fated British military commander, referred to his men as "Hostages to Fortune" and for the next three and half years they were just that: in the living hell of Shamshuipo Camp; aboard the hell ship Lisbon Maru; in the final hell of Kobe on the Japanese mainland. Thus the "Hostages to Fortune", their story takes its place besides the grim realism of "The Cruel Sea" and "The Bridge over the River Kwai". The great difference is that this is true.…