And The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder -

Rawlings, Leo with Supporting Account By Bill Duncan

ISBN 10: 0903488000 / ISBN 13: 9780903488006

Published by Rawlings, Chapman Publications, London, 1972

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SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR 'TO KATHY McKAY VERY BEST WISHES SINCERELY LEO RAWLINGS'. Stated First Edition. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy. Dustjacket has a little wear to spine head and tail, sides and corner tips and is not price clipped and has a dustjacket protector fitted. Foreword by Lord Mountbatten of Burma. Dedication by Lord Russell of Liverpool. xxxi and 160 pages. Map of the notorious Railway of Death front endpaper and 119 plates. The artist's (1918-1984) now classic work as a prisoner of war for three and a half years of the Japanese in World War II, in which he describes the railway camps, the bridge building on the River Kwai, Changi in Singapore, the fall of Singapore, and all of the horrors experienced by the POW's - all graphically illustrated by his now famous drawings. **** A VERY SCARCE SIGNED COPY **** 22 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 006244

Bibliographic Details

• Title: And The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder -
• Publisher: Rawlings, Chapman Publications, London
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0903488000
• ISBN 13: 9780903488006
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Rawlings, Leo
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military / War

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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.