9780241020012 - Hostages to Fortune by Carew, Tim (6 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United KingdomM Godding Books Ltd
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
£ 11.69
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hardcover. Condition: Good. Acceptable Jacket. The jacket has a Sellotape repair Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Paraphernalia Books 'N' Stuff, Belleville, ON, CanadaParaphernalia Books 'N' Stuff
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£ 9.23
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Olive green boards with price clipped jacket which has a tape repaired tear on bottom inside about an inch long, small tears top of spine and back top, no missing pieces, crease on back flap; Illustrated endboards of map of area; Discoloured pages but overall…clean, free of any writing; 175 pages with index. An account of prisoners of war from The Fall of Hong Kong; to the horrors of Shamshuipo Camp to the final days of war.
- Hardcover
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Shannon, New ZealandBook Express (NZ)
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Fair
£ 3.57
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 175 pages. cover worn, ex-library.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ainsworth Books ( IOBA), Chilliwack, BC, CanadaAinsworth Books ( IOBA)
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Condition: Used - Very good
£ 18.45
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, 1/2" tear bottom front panel of dustjacket.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Map endpapers; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pages; "December 7 1941 was the Day of Infamy which saw the Japanese attac…k on Pearl Harbour; the next morning the target was Hong Kong. After 17 days of vicious fighting the peacetime garrison - grossly outnumbered, sleepless and near to starvation - surrendered on Christmas Day. The next three and a half years they spent in the living hell of Shamshuipo Camp, then aboard the hell-ship Lisbon Maru and then in the final hell of Kobe on the Japanese mainland - 'Hostages to Fortune' as their ill-fated British military commander, Major-General Maltby referred to them." (Jacket blurb).
More images- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bishops Green Books, Newbury, BERKS, United KingdomBishops Green Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 24.95
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Olive green cloth bound, hardback book with gilt titles running along the spine. Comes with nice dust jacket. This book is in really good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. First published in Great Britain by Hamish…Hamilton in 1971, First Edition. 175 pages all intact and nice tight binding. All pages, text, illustrations and maps are in good, clean, readable order. Hint of red colour to top of pages. December 7th 1941, was the Day of Infamy which saw the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour: the next morning the target was Hong Kong. After seventeen days of vicious fighting the peacetime garrison-grossly outnumbered, sleepless and near to starvation-surrendered on Christmas Day. During the the battle Major general Maltby, the ill fated British military commander, referred to his men as "Hostages to Fortune" and for the next three and half years they were just that: in the living hell of Shamshuipo Camp; aboard the hell ship Lisbon Maru; in the final hell of Kobe on the Japanese mainland. Thus the "Hostages to Fortune", their story takes its place besides the grim realism of "The Cruel Sea" and "The Bridge over the River Kwai". The great difference is that this is true.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United KingdomAlexander's Books
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£ 30.00
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback 192 pp. Endpaper maps Very Good condition in Near Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Long signed inscription by the author acknowledging his debt to Major Dick Smith curator of records of the Middlesex…regiment who is also mentioned in print in the book. Signed by Author(s).
