The Generals Wear Cork Hats: An Amazing Adventure that Made World History
by Burman, Ben Lucien w/sketches by Alice Caddy
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Decatur, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Taplinger. 1963 1st ed. 257pp. + 13 appendix pp. illus. red cloth tall 8vo: near Fine in a Very Good dj in poly cover[some browning of illustrated endpp; a tiny fore edge bump; else nrF; dj = few small nicks & tears @ extremities; else VG] American writer and veteran of both World Wars Burman (1896-1984) was probably most famous in his day for the Catfish Bend series of children’s books also illustrated by his wife Alice Caddy. This book is a popular account of his "discovery" (for an American audience) of General De Gaulle and the Free French in Africa in 1941.
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- Bookseller
- Auldfarran Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12403
- Title
- The Generals Wear Cork Hats: An Amazing Adventure that Made World History
- Author
- Burman, Ben Lucien w/sketches by Alice Caddy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1963 1st ed
- Publisher
- New York: Taplinger
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR II TWO SECOND AFRICA GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE FREE FRENCH FORCES
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War Two;
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