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Seller: Charlotte and Father, Stroud, United KingdomCharlotte and Father
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Copy in navy cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Occasional slight foxing to folio fore-edges. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w plates Tipped in signature of the author.
Seller Inventory # A02003
- Title
- A hell of a war
- Author
- FAIRBANKS, Douglas (Jr)
- Publisher
- Robson Books
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0860519643
- ISBN 13
- 9780860519645
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 725.748 grams
- Dimensions
- 15.4 centimeters width by 23.8 centimeters height by 3 centimeters depth
Unlike so many Hollywood heroes who never heard a shot fired, Fairbanks spent most of his time in harm's way, including gruelling experiences aboard a destroyer in the North Atlantic, followed by combat in parts of the European Theater. Towering figures - FDR, General Patton, King George VI, Marshal Tito, the Mountbattens - play significant roles in this fast-paced, enthralling story.
And there were lighter moments as well, notably in wartime London, where falling bombs took second place to frolics with old friends like Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Noel Coward, and David Niven.
A Hell of a War colorfully ends with the return of the sailor to his wife and two daughters, Daphne and Victoria, to their California home, and their bizarre reception by the motion picture community, including Cary Grant, Barbara Hutton, and Fairbank's first wife, Joan Crawford: a fitting Hollywood finale to four years crammed with enough adventures to leave a screenwriter delightfully dizzy.
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Charlotte and Father
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