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Published by Simon & Schuster, 1979
ISBN 10: 0671242784ISBN 13: 9780671242787
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Good. First Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1979, 1979
Seller: Booketeria Inc., San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. Hard Cover. Very Good =/No Jacket. First Printing. Ex-Library. Library binding. war.
Published by Ballantine Books, 1980
ISBN 10: 0345290070ISBN 13: 9780345290076
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45.
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Published by Simon & Schuster, 1979
Seller: Once Upon A Time Books, Siloam Springs, AR, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .
Published by Simon & Schuster, New Haven, 1979
Seller: Texas Star Books, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Story of the prisoners-of-war who built the real bridge on the River Kwai and what happened to them after building the bridge. Tight copy with clean interior but slight spotting on fore edge. Light shelfwear to book. Dust jacket has light chipping and tearing. Nice copy.
Published by London: Futura publications, 1980., 1980
Seller: Saturday Books, Dudley, United Kingdom
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. pb, good cond. 10/02/2015.
Condition: Very Good. NY Simon And Schuster 1979. 1/0/00 Binding: Unknown VG. in VG dj dj in mylar 318 pages. Illustrated by illus. BC edition. 8vo.
Published by Raven Books, 1979
ISBN 10: 0354044176ISBN 13: 9780354044172
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and has light toning. Some toning to pager ends. DJ with some edge wear, scuffs, toning and creasing.
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Published by Ballantine Books, Canada, 1981
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher. 308 pgs. "A true story of the Allied prisoners of war who emerged from the grueling task of building the River-Kwai railway and were jammed into the tiny holds of two ships bound for Japan. Suddenly both craft were sunk by American submarines. Thus began a shocking ordeal unsurpassed inhistory. Surviving POW's clustered desperately together, living in constant fear of sharks, drinking seawater and going mad, drifting into lethal oil slicks, or simply vanishing under the waves. Of 1300 prisoners, only 152 made it." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.
Published by Simon and Schuster, 1979
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean. Good DJ with little wear.
Published by Simon & Schuster, 1979
ISBN 10: 0671242784ISBN 13: 9780671242787
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Remainder mark. Near fine book and jacket.
Published by Ballantine Books, Canada, 1981
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: FN+, Near New. First Edition By This Publisher. 308 pgs. "A true story of the Allied prisoners of war who emerged from the grueling task of building the River-Kwai railway and were jammed into the tiny holds of two ships bound for Japan. Suddenly both craft were sunk by American submarines. Thus began a shocking ordeal unsurpassed inhistory. Surviving POW's clustered desperately together, living in constant fear of sharks, drinking seawater and going mad, drifting into lethal oil slicks, or simply vanishing under the waves. Of 1300 prisoners, only 152 made it." An Un-read copy! Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.
Published by "New York, NY, U.S.A.": Simon & Schuster Trade, 1979, 1979
Seller: Indian Hills Books, Blountville, TN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. Not price clipped.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1979
Seller: Odd Volume Bookstore, JACKSON, TN, U.S.A.
Hard Back. Condition: Good/Good Dj. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo 0 Former owners' ink name present.
Published by Simon and Schuster, 1979
Seller: Old Village Books, Mt. Pleasant, SC, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Very clean book. Book Club Edition Pictures on request.
Published by Futura
ISBN 10: 0708817513ISBN 13: 9780708817513
Seller: Sugen & Co., Kirkby Fleetham, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. (Film/TV tie-in). (edges heavily "tanned" & reading creases) (good reading copy only) (1st. Futura/Jade printing 1980 with "red" cover and passing film ref. ) (includes "historical" photo-insert).
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Published by Simon & Schuster, NY, 1979
Seller: Abstract Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Near fine; dust jacket slightly chipped, sunned edge, very good. 8 vo. 338 pp. Source notes, interviews, index, b/w photo plates, map end papers, tan boards/black cloth. First printing.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1989
ISBN 10: 0140122370ISBN 13: 9780140122374
Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Book
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint; First Printing. Minor shelf wear. ; Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. ; 346 pages; True account, based on survivors testimony of what happened to approximately two thousand allied POWs who having managed to survive the building of the notorious Burma Railway were then shipped to Japan to work as slave labour. Crammed into the forward holds of two troopships they were one week out of Singapore when the torpedoes of American submarines struck. Mass Market PB.
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Published by Simon and Schuster, N.Y., 1979
Seller: Booked Experiences Bookstore, Burlington, ON, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near Fine Book of the Month Club Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.318 with index. Built at bayonet point by Allied prisioners of war this book is a true account of what happened to those prisioners afterwards. clean tight unread copy d/j shows slight rubbing down spine edge and slight edgewear.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1979
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: very good, good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Book Club Edition. 318, [2] pages. Illus., endpaper maps, source notes, index, DJ somewhat soiled and has tear. Return From the River Kwai tells the harrowing tale of about 2200 of those soldiers who were selected because they were healthier than the others to be sent to Japan for work in the factories there. While en route the ships they sailed on, the Kachidoki Maru and Rakuyo Maru, were torpedoed and sunk by American submarines who weren't aware that they carried human cargo. The men who survived spent as much as a week floating in the ocean before being rescued by those same submarines. This book tells the firsthand accounts of their experiences and the hardships they endured, from the terrible conditions in POW camps and the difficulties of staying afloat and sane in a vast ocean, to the joys of being rescued and returned to society. The Blairs have done a terrific job of putting together the individual accounts and historical documents that form one of the extraordinary stories of surviving the brutal conditions of war. Unpleasant details are not left out either, although they are told with a sense of dignity. Intertwined with the record of the survivors is the story told by the men on the submarines, who played such an important role in rescuing the stranded men. Clay Blair, Jr. (May 1, 1925 - December 16, 1998) was an American historian, best known for his books on military history. He served on the fleet submarine Guardfish (SS-217) in World War II and later wrote for Time and Life magazines before becoming editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post. He assisted General Omar Bradley in the writing of his autobiography, A General's Life (1983), published after the general's death. Blair wrote two dozen history books and hundreds of magazine articles that reached a popular audience. His last book was Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942-1945 (1998), which followed Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942 (1996). Blair's history of the Korean War The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953 (1987) is considered one of the definitive historical works on the war. His work was notable for his criticism of senior American political and military leaders. Blair criticizes President Harry S. Truman and his Secretary of Defense, Louis A. Johnson, for failing to maintain the military's readiness in the years immediately following World War II. His history, while comprehensive, primarily employs a top-down perspective, with less emphasis on individual soldiers than on larger operational issues and the perspectives of general and field-grade officers. He has also been criticized by some historians for not making sufficient use of Communist sources. Blair also wrote extensively on the submarine war of World War II, notably in the bestselling Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan (1975), considered the definitive work on the Pacific submarine war. He was for many years married to Joan Blair, who co-wrote some of his books.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, N.Y., 1979
ISBN 10: 0671242784ISBN 13: 9780671242787
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover . VG / VG.
Published by Simon and Schuster, [1979]., New York:, 1979
ISBN 10: 0671242784ISBN 13: 9780671242787
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
8vo. 338 pp. Numerous photo illust., maps on endpapers. Half-blk cloth over gray boards, gilt lettrng (stmp on lwr fore-edge), w/ d.j. VG/NF copy. First edition of this stirring saga of the true account of the bridge built by the forced labor of more than 2000 Australian and British POWs, who were later sank unknowingly in transport ships by allied Subs. Many were later recovered by those same subs.
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0671242784ISBN 13: 9780671242787
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 338pp. Illustrated from black & white photographs. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. The true story of the Allied prisoners who build the bridge at bayonet point, and what happen to them afterward. The famous novel, *The Bridge over the River Kwai*, later made into a successful film, by Pierre Boulle, is a fictionalized account of the horrors endured by these prisoners enslaved to build a bridge for the Japanese railway running through the jungles of Burma and Thailand during WWII.
Published by Macdonald & Jane's, [1979], 1979
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition, with 69 plates on 24 and front and rear endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The story of the Allied POWs who, having built the Burma-Thailand railway, were en route to forced labour in Japan when their prison ships were attacked by American submarines. Enser, p.209.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
[1979], book club edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 318pp. Photographs, notes, index, map endpapers. Locale: Pacific Ocean; River Kwai. (World War 2, Prisoners of War, World War 2--Pacific Theater).
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York
ISBN 10: 0671242784ISBN 13: 9780671242787
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Book First Edition
[0-671-24278-4] [1979], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 338pp. Map endpapers, photographs, notes, index. The dust jacket is slightly darkened on the top and bottom edges. Locale: Pacific Ocean; River Kwai. (World War 2, Prisoners of War, World War 2--Pacific Theater).
First U.S. Edition; 8vo; pp. 318; endpaper maps, 24 pages of plates; source notes, interviews, index; original cloth, dustjacket price clipped, page edges flecked, a good copy.
Published by Macdonald and Jane's, England, 1979
Seller: Ann's Old Town Books, Swindon, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Return From The River Kwai by Joan & Clay Blair, Hardcover, First English Edition (1979). Book in very good condition, in a similar unclipped dust jacket. The book has a slight crease to the back cover, and slight ageing to the page edges. The dust jacket has a minute hole to the front cover and minor wear to the extremities. (See pictures). A true World War II story of the British and Australian Prisoners of War who, after building the Burma-Thailand railway, were recruited for forced labour in Japan.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1979
Seller: Great Southern Books, King River, WA, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Spine working loose but still intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket shows minor wear at edges, small chips and tears, and is foxed here and there. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. This book is available and ready to be shipped. Return from the River Kwai is the story of two shiploads of POWs being sent to Japan for work detail. The Allies bomb the ships, not knowing they are carrying prisoners. In the first part of the book many uninteresting facts are strung together (based on government reports?) to lead up to the main story. After the ships are torpedoed, eye-witness accounts are included in the narrative, which make the book absolutely riveting. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; United States; 1940s; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8314.
Published by MacDonald & Jane's London 1979, 1979
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 338pp., b/w plates, maps, bibliog., index, Story of a group of British & American POWs lost at Sea en route to Japan after being sunk by US Submarines. Details what happened to those that survived. Ownership inscription o/w nice copy.