DIE LIKE THE CARP! THE STORY OF THE GREATEST PRISON ESCAPE EVER ...
by Gordon, Harry
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0726932434
- ISBN 13
- 9780726932434
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Stanmore, New South Wales : Cassell Australia, 1979. 240 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). Map/plan endpapers, b&w photographs. "In the early morning of 5 August 1944, outside the little Australian township of Cowra, the greatest prison break in world history took place. More than 1100 Japanese prisoners of war took part, and 231 of them were killed; 334 of them actually escaped, and were captured over the ensuing nine days by posses of police, soldiers and local farmers. During the outbreak and the events which followed, four Australian soldiers were killed and another four were wounded. The whole bizarre episode was cloaked in secrecy at the time, and for many years afterwards." Minor browning to pages, light browning to edges of textblock, light edgewear to boards. Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, small tear, archivally taped, at top of rear hinge, very light rubbing.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22460
- Title
- DIE LIKE THE CARP! THE STORY OF THE GREATEST PRISON ESCAPE EVER ...
- Author
- Gordon, Harry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0726932434
- ISBN 13
- 9780726932434
- Publisher
- Cassell Australia
- Place of Publication
- Stanmore, New South Wales
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- World War II, Second World War, Japanese prisoners of war, POWs, Australia, Cowra, Escapes, Australian soldiers, Australian Prison camps, Akira Kanazawa, Korean, Robert Ramsay, Tadao Minami, Hiroshi Yoshida, Yoshio Shimamoyama, Montague Brown, Benjamin Ha
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military - World War II; Military - POWs & Escapers;
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Capricorn Books
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
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- New
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Edges
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