AND THE DAWN CAME UP LIKE THUNDER: Autobiogrpahy of an Artist at War and What Came After

Leo Rawlings - with supporting account by Bill Duncan [Foreword by Lord Mountbatten of Burma - Admiral of the Fleet]

ISBN 10: 0903488000 / ISBN 13: 9780903488006

Published by Rawlings, Chapman Publications, London, 1972

About this Item

First impression of the true first edition. Profusely illustrated with 119 black and white plates and drawings by Leo Rawlings, drawn whilst he was a prisoner of war in Burma, and a black and white photographic frontispiece of Lord Mountbatten to the fore. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Black and white map illustrated: 'the notorious Railway of Death' front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. No inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of £3.00. Top of the inside of the dustwrapper reinforced with tape (not visible from outside). Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. Head and tail of spine and corners of dustwrapper creased and rubbed. 3mm closed tear and associated creasing to top edge of rear panel of dustwrapper. Spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. Rear and front panels of dustwrapper bright. ***242 mm x160 mm. 160 pages. ***Leo Rawlings was captured at the fall of Singapore and spent three and a half years as a prisoner of war. He made over one hundred eye witness paintings of the conditions he experienced. ***'The Wellcome historical medical museum saw fit to purchase a number of paintings by Leo Rawlings whilst a prisoner of war in Burma' (Quote from rear of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original dustwrapper, illustrated throughout with drawings by the author. Of interest to historians researching the conditions of the prisoners of war that were held by the Japanese in Burma during World War Two. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AND THE DAWN CAME UP LIKE THUNDER: Autobiogrpahy of an Artist at War and What Came After
• Publisher: Rawlings, Chapman Publications, London
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0903488000
• ISBN 13: 9780903488006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Leo Rawlings
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Illustrated
  • World War Two (Second World War)
  • History & Military

About this title

Synopsis

"And the dawn came up like thunder"

About the Author

Leo Rawlings (1918-1990) was a private in the 137th Field Regiment Royal Artillery. A budding artist living in Blackpool, his life was changed forever by the war. Fighting from December 1941 to February 1942 as part of the headlong British retreat eventually leading to defeat in Singapore, he chronicled in pictures and words the campaign and the events that followed from 1941-1945. He drew what he witnessed around him, leading him to be unofficially commissioned to keep a visual record of the prisoners of war s lives.