Publicado por Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 0304352349 ISBN 13: 9780304352340
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. As a police officer in pre-war colonial Hong Kong, George Wright-Nooth was studying for his Chinese language exams when the Japanese invaded on Christmas Day, 1941. He spent the next four years incarcerated in the Japanese Military Internment Camp at Stanley. Daily life became marked by hunger and appalling suffering at the hands of the guards. He regularly witnessed death and torture, and his account of a multiple execution by sword is as moving and horrific as anything one is ever likely to read. While many of his fellow prisoners cracked beneath the terror of such atrocities, the author repaid such treatment with subversive activities, such as the running of secret radios, and the smuggling of food and messages to and from some of those held by the dreaded Japanese Gendarmerie. Perhaps most remarkably of all, the author kept a diary throughout his incarceration which, miraculously, was never discovered by his captors. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Publicado por Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2008
ISBN 10: 0850524156 ISBN 13: 9780850524154
Librería: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers.
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Publicado por London, Leo Cooper, 1994., 1994
Librería: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
xv+272pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, a touch sunned on backstrip. Black and white photographs. A very good copy. First Edition.
Publicado por Cassell London 1999, 1999
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
1st ed. thus stiff wrappers Nice Copy small octavo xv + 272pp., b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index, Diary of a Metropolitan Police Officer, captured and imprisoned for four years in Stanley Camp.
Publicado por Cassell London 1999, 1999
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
1st ed. thus stiff wrappers Very Good small octavo xv + 272pp., b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index, Diary of a Metropolitan Police Officer, captured and imprisoned for four years in Stanley Camp.
Publicado por Cassell London 1999, 1999
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
1st ed. thus stiff wrappers Fine small octavo xv + 272pp., b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index, Diary of a Metropolitan Police Officer, captured and imprisoned for four years in Stanley Camp.
Publicado por Leo Cooper, London, 1994
Librería: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. with some illustrations. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Category: Military & Warfare; Britain/UK; 1990s; For further info on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Publicado por Leo Cooper London 1994, 1994
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo xv + 272pp., b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index, Diary of a Metropolitan Police Officer, captured and imprisoned for four years in Stanley Camp. Neat ownership inscription & dust jacket a little sunned at spine o/w nice copy o/w nice copy.
Publicado por Leo Cooper, [Barnsley,, 1994
Librería: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; black cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Astonishingly detailed and extremely harrowing account of life and death in Stanley camp. The author, who during four years' captivity managed miraculously to preserve scraps of a diary on which this work is based, survived the war to become Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Hong Kong Police. A mostvaluable memoir and already uncommon in this condition.
Publicado por Leo Cooper, 1994
Librería: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Signed First Edition. Near fine condition in near fine unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed and dated by the author to half title page. Book.