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Four Thousand Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home by Holmes, Linda Goetz; Williams, J. M. [Foreword] - 1993
by Holmes, Linda Goetz; Williams, J. M. [Foreword]
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Four Thousand Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home
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Allen & Unwin Pty Limited (Australia), 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. VG+/Fine. Previous owners blindstamp seal to ffep, otherwise almost like new. Fresh, clean hardcover with tight square binding and sharp corners. Dustjacket with negligible wear, in mylar cover. A 1997 newspaper clipping laid-in revealing details of a secret fund discovered by the author of this book, setup by the Japanese to accept money from international sources to benefit POWs that may not have been accurately administered. St Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1993. First Edition with full number line, 1st printing. xxiii, 179 pages; photos, bibliography. - Tells how one Australian POW prepared himself mentally and physically for his journey home after three and a half years of brutal captivity in Java, Burma and Thailand during World War II. - - Carefully packed and promptly shipped with tracking provided.
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St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 1863735798 . Index, notes, photos. The author was an Australian engineer-soldier and Japanese prisoner of war during World War II. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 179 pages .
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St. Leonards: Allen. very nice copy; a vivid picture of Australians as POWs of the Japanese . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1993.
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Unwin Hyman, 1994. Book. Very Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The publisher's review notice is laid in..
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Four Thousand Bowls of Rice : A Prisoner of War Comes Home.
by Holmes, Linda Goetz, and Williams, J M (Foreword by)
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Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994. hard cover with dustjacket. VG/VG. Very good book in very good dust jacket with light shelf wear./Very Good. Illustrated with black and white photographs.
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Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 6x1x9. Illustrated. Signed by the author. This work tells how one prisoner of war prepared himself, mentally and physically, for his journey home after three and a half years of brutal captivity in Java, Burma and Thailand during World War II. Staff Sergeant Cecil Dickson was a member of the 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion, which was forced to surrender to the Japanese in March 1942. His engineering unit bore the heaviest work in constructing the Burma-Thailand railway. The author draws on Dickson's letters home to his wife, and on research and interviews with many surviving Pioneers, to paint a dramatic picture of prisoner-of-war life under the Japanese. Readers can discover what it felt like to emerge abruptly from one day's starvation to the next day's air-drops, and from being in regimented captivity to being in charge of one's own time again. Dickson's writings also provide a glimpse of one man's…
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4000 Bowls of Rice A Prisoner of War Comes Home
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Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 1993. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 179 pages. Draws on the letters by Sergeant Cecil Dickson of the 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion and research with other surviving POWs combined with a series of photographs, taken secretly by other Australian POWs. This book looks at the lives of POW's in World War 2 and especially during the hiatus between the end of the war and the return home. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1993.. 1993. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 179pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, owner's name on fep. / Very good d/w. .
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