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Allan Wingate, 1973-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a very good binding, no marks or notations.
Damned Don't Drown by Arthur V. Sellwood - 1973
by Arthur V. Sellwood
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Damned Don't Drown
by Arthur V. Sellwood
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London: Allan Wingate, 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
- Bookseller Fireside Bookshop (GB)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition Very Good
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- ISBN 10 0855230282
- ISBN 13 9780855230289
- Publisher Allan Wingate
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1973
- Size 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Damned Don't Drown
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The Damned Don't Drown
by Sellwood, A. V
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- Hardcover
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London: Allan Wingate, 1973. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 159, [1] pages. Arthur Sellwood was initially a newspaper journalist covering crime stories. In 1945 a heavily overloaded cruise liner with some 6,500 fleeing Germans was torpedoed. This finely written book recounts the disaster. The Damned Don't Drown is a quite extraordinarily vivid book that does give just a taste of what that appalling night must have been like - in particular, the 45 minutes or so between the torpedo hits and the sinking. MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German cruise ship converted into an armed hospital ship and which while functioning as a military transport ship was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating German civilians, German officials, refugees from Prussia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Estonia and Croatia and military personnel from Gotenhafen (Gdynia) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate, 9,400 people died, which makes…
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