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A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: Memoirs of a Wartime Boomtown. Signed hardcover first edition - 2002

by Jones, Wilbur D., Jr

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Shippensburg, Pennsylvania:: White Mane Books,, (2002). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First edition. A "social history of the life and culture of the World War II home front in Wilmington and Southeastern North Carolina" based on first hand accounts, newspaper articles and the author's boyhood remembrances. Wilmington, NC became "a mighty contributor to the war effort and the country's unique wartime boomtown, earning it the right to be proclaimed as 'America's World War II City.' The area had all the armed forces stationed in large numbers, a shipyard producing 243 cargo vessels, the vital state port, industries at capacity, and German prisoner of war camps. Thousands left to fight; 191 New Hanover County boys died. It endured constant civilian defense drills and restrictions, U-boats sinking ships offshore (one fired on a defense plant), and until 1944, the threat of attack. The population nearly tripled." SIGNED on the front endpaper with the words "best wishes." Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xxvii, 318 pp. Promotional folder laid in.
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  • Title A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: Memoirs of a Wartime Boomtown.
  • Author Jones, Wilbur D., Jr
  • Binding SIGNED hardcover first edition -
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
  • Pages 318
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher White Mane Books,, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania:
  • Date (2002)
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 77823
  • ISBN 9781572493254 / 1572493259
  • Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.6 x 1.17 in (23.42 x 16.76 x 2.97 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002028866
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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