New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1959). First Edition. Hardcover. [light soiling and minor shelfwear to bottom edge, boards very slightly bowed, faint bookseller's rubber stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, California); jacket a bit edgeworn, slight paper loss at spine extremities, some soiling to rear panel]. Comic novel about "a poor shnook to whom everything happens -- a World War II veteran who, by horrible error, is recalled during the Korean War and finds himself stranded on a lonely island radar post, halfway between Korea and the Japanese mainland, with the four hundred men of an Air Force radar unit whose morale is at rock bottom." Adapted into the 1960 movie of the same name, starring Ernie Kovacs, Dick Shawn, and Don Knotts, produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. .

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Bookseller: ReadInk (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 22819
Title: Wake Me When It's Over
Author: Singer, Howard
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dj
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: (c.1959)
Keywords: Korean War, Comic Novel, United Artists, Movie Source

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