Yours Till The End (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, JACKIE AND SUNNIE MANN)

Mann, Jackie & Sunnie

ISBN 10: 0434448443 / ISBN 13: 9780434448449

Published by Heineman, London, 1992

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VG/VG. First Edition, First Printing in d/w not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, JACKIE AND SUNNIE MANN, on title-page. Inscription reads,'To ----/from/Jackie & Sunnie'. Illustrated with photographs. The autobiography of Jackie (1914-1995) and Sunnie Mann (1914-1992). Jackie had been a Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain and had flown with RAF Squadrons 64, 91 and 92. In 1989 Jackie was taken hostage in Lebanon by Islamists and for 865 days was kept chained up. With Index. Age-tanning to edges of pages; d/w has creasing to inside front flap; d/w has sunning around spine; else a very good copy, in a very good d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY BOTH JACKIE AND SUNNIE MANN. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf. Seller Inventory # 18778

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Title: Yours Till The End (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST ...

Publisher: Heineman, London

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.

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Jackie Mann, a 75-year-old British pub-keeper in Beirut and a WW II Spitfire pilot, was picked up on the street one morning in 1989 by Palestinian terrorists and held hostage for two and a half years. Kept in chains and isolation, deprived of reading materials when his eyeglasses broke and approached sexually by his captors, Mann, the oldest of all the hostages taken in the Middle East, kept up a stoic spirit that brought him through the ordeal in physically weakened but relatively good condition. Although he was never permitted to see the faces of his captors, from conversations overheard and movements around him, he decried the inept and bumbling, if dangerous, men who, toward the end, simply wished to be rid of him. His wife, Sunnie, who detailed her ordeal in Holding On , never knew if he was alive but stayed on in war-torn Beirut, waiting for word. Throughout the nightly shellings, shortages of food, water, money and electricity--and the eventual kidnapping of her steadfast companion, a poodle--she fruitlessly besieged the British Embassy and the press for help. Alternately, Jack and Sunnie each recount the drama of their daily lives in homely detail, drawing a picture of mutual devotion and staunchness of spirit. Photos.

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