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Dunkirk The Patriotic Myth
by Harman, Nicholas
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671253891
- ISBN 13
- 9780671253899
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 271pp., Index. Illustrated with photogrpahs and map endpapers. First edition, first printing with number line intact. No previous ownership marks, small remainder mark at bottom edge of bulked sheets. A clean, square, tightly bound copy. Modern revisionist history about the Battle of Dunkirk, portraying the previously believed British triumph as one the worst defeats in Bristish military history, and explaining the necessity for how and why it was portrayed as a victory at the time. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005551
- Title
- Dunkirk The Patriotic Myth
- Author
- Harman, Nicholas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671253891
- ISBN 13
- 9780671253899
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- World War II, History, Non-Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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- Remainder Mark
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....