Away all boats
by Dodson, Kenneth
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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Haddon Heights, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, 1954. Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Boston: Little, Brown, 1954. Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 508 p.; 22 cm. Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1954. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 8vo-over 7?"-9?" tall. Dust jacket has edge wear and small tears to edges, corner creased, vivid color and graphics. Blue Cloth Book with dark blue printing on spine. Pencil mark on inside blank page. Fine copy with clean pages. The heroic story of the attack transport, Belinda, launching her landing craft at the Pacific beaches in WW II. Basis for the 1956 movie featuring Jeff Chandler. Fine Condition, No DJ. Corners and edges are rubbed. Text is clean and unmarked. Carl Sandburg called it'one of the great sea stories of all time'. It tells the intimate and heroic life story of the attack transport Belinda. It tells of the ships and men that came in under naval bombardement, that landed American marines and GI's in battle, that took them wounded and dying off the blasted beaches at Makin Island, Kwajalein, Saipan and Lingayen Gulf. It is the Pacific War re-created in its entirety. HALL01
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- Bookseller
- Glading Hill Emporium
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0000693
- Title
- Away all boats
- Author
- Dodson, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition. Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Campaigns; Fiction; General; Pacific Ocean; Sea stories; War stories; World War, 1939-1945
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Glading Hill Emporium
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