New York: Verso. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. 1781680787 . Only slight wear.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.30 X 5.60 X 1 inches; 168 pages; From the front DJ flap: "Boy 30529 tells the story of a child who at the age of twelve lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identity. Born into a respectable Czech family, Felix's early years were idyllic. But when Nazi persecution threatened in 1938, his father travelled to England, hoping to arrange for his family to emigrate there. His efforts came too late, and his wife and children fell into the hands of the Fascist occupiers." .

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Felix Weinberg was a Holocaust survivor from Czechoslovakia who settled in Britain after the war. Despite his formal education having been cut short at age twelve, he won a place at university and later become the first professor of Combustion Physics at Imperial College London. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society. He was the author or editor of four books and more than 220 scientific papers. Internationally acknowledged as a leading thinker in his field, he was awarded a D.Sc. by the University of London (1961), both the Silver (1972) and the Bernard Lewis Gold (1980) Medals of the Combustion Institute, Fellowship of the Royal Society (1983), the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal (1988), the D.Sc. Honoris Causa by Technion, Haifa (1990), the Italgas Prize for Energy Sciences (Turin Academy, 1991), and the Smolenski Medal of the Polish Academy of Science (1999), as well as being elected to the American National Academy of Engineering as a Foreign Associate in 2001. The Hugh Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to Combustion Physics was conferred on him in 2005 (Institute of Physics). He died in December 2012.

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Bookseller: Ainsworth Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 16257
Title: Boy 30529 A Memoir
Author: Weinberg, Felix
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 1781680787
ISBN 13: 9781781680780
Publisher: Verso
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2013
Keywords: 1781680787, Holocaust, WWII, World War 2
Bookseller catalogs: Militaria; Militaria / Holocaust;

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