Behind Barbed Wire

Language: English

Published by Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1967

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Pacific Press Publishing Association, Published 1967. Paperback, v, 121 pp.; 22 cm; A Destiny Book D-114. Cover illustration by John Steel. In Good condition. Pictorial covers with a painting of a Japanese sentry before a carved temple gate on front and a Shanghai street scene with rickshaw and porter on rear; bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild to moderate overall shelf and edge wear, some color loss along edges and spine, some mild toning and scuffing. Light creasing to spine, binding tight. Previous owner's name in ink on inside front cover, with slight ink transfer to title page; diagonal crease at lower corner of inside front cover. Light soiling to edges of text block and mild toning to pages; small nicks to fore-edge of a few leaves (pp. 60-61, 64); otherwise unmarked. True account of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries John and Olga Oss, who sailed for China in 1919. John headed the publishing work in Manchuria and later became editor in chief of the Chinese Signs of the Times in Shanghai, while Olga raised funds for a clinic for the city's poor. After Pearl Harbor the Japanese interned them at the Chapei Civilian Assembly Center outside Shanghai, where they spent thirty-one months; the book covers camp rations, Red Cross parcels, a wedding among the internees and the end of the war, then their return to Shanghai in 1947. Cover illustration by John Steel (1921-1998), the California illustrator known for Revell and Monogram model-kit box art and for religious illustration for Pacific Press. Contents: Whose Shall These Riches Be?; The Bombs Fall, December 8, 1941; The Escape; A Coffin and the Twenty-third Psalm; The Enemy Hatchet Strikes; The Silver Opium Box; Prisoners in a Japanese War Camp; Early Days at Camp; Please, Commandant, Just a Week's Honeymoon; John Oss Leaves Camp; Worms and Woes; War News Leaks Out; Starvation Threatens; Food Falls From Heaven; The War Ends; Angel of Death Gets Cheated; God Is Not Dead.…

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Title
Behind Barbed Wire
Author
Vinnie Ruffo; John Steel (cover illustrator)
Publisher
Pacific Press Publishing Association
Publication year
1967
Condition
Good
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
Item weight
8 ounces
Dimensions
22 cm
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