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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xxx, 458 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm. ; LCCn 2004054193 ; ISBN 9781400064137, 1400064139 ; OCLC 56413352 ; black cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Author's note -- Map : Construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway -- The "Fepow" prayer -- Introduction -- Part one. Surrender -- Interlude : "We feel let down rather" -- Changi -- Interlude : Christmas in captivity -- The railway of death -- Interlude : A walk along the River Kwai -- The real story of the bridge on the River Kwai -- Interlude : Boon Pong -- "Speedo" -- Interlude : Smokey Joe's -- Sonkurai : Valley of the Shadow of Death -- Interlude : Ave Maria -- The railway opens -- Part two. Survival -- Cooks Food -- Religion -- Jungle medicine -- Smoking Gone with the Wind -- King Rat -- Letters -- Entertainment -- Sports -- Ingenuity -- The "canaries" -- Officers and gentlemen -- Part three. The hellships -- Interlude : A happy ending -- Japan -- Interlude : The "Jap-happy" -- Haruku -- Interlude : A conjuring trick -- Sandakan -- Interlude : Mozart -- Changi 1944-45 -- Interlude : "Don't let this thing drag on much longer" -- Freedom -- Interlude : Bushido -- Home at last -- Epilogue : The last post -- Postscript : What became of them? ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Kart., geheftet. Condition: Gut. 32 S., Abb., in Englisch. Einband und Papier altersbed. gebräunt, sonst gut erhalten. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 100.

Vol. in -4 (21 x 28 cm.), brossura editoriale col. argento con illustr. a colori e titoli in nero sul piatto ant., pp. 287, (1), XL tav. a colori a p.pagina e con 112 illustr. in nero nel testo. In buone condizioni. Catalogo della Mostra realizzata a Firenze presso il Centro Mostre nel 1986.