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Out of the Blue: A Pilot with the Chindits
by O'Brien, Terence
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002171988
- ISBN 13
- 9780002171984
- Seller
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Robertsdale, Alabama, United States
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About This Item
Collins, London, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover (14 x 23 cm), 272 pages. ISBN: 0002171988. The book and dust jacket (dj) are in Good to Very Good condition. Black boards with gold letter on spine. Bumped. Rolled at head/foot of spine and corners. Some light fading along board top edges. Pages tanning, some soiling/foxing noted along edges. Clean, tight textblock. The dj is bumped, scuffed/soiled with some creasing and light chipping along edges. "Anyone who survived a full tour of bombing missions with Coastal Command had won life against long odds. The RAF wisely and justly did its best to keep such people off operations for a year or so. But the determined young Australian whom they sent out to India late in 1943 found a loophole. The Chindits, the units operating behind the enemy lines in Burma, depended on air communications for their very existence. There was no other way they could go or come, obtain supplies or evacuate casualties. The troops in the jungle thus needed expert flyers who could asses the practicability of a landing strip or a dropping zone and who could tell the approaching pilots what to do. Terence O'Brien volunteered, and thus experienced not only a new form of fighting as a soldier serving in the harshest conditions but a new approach to the whole business of war. This book is one of the best to be written about the war in Burma." Weight: 500g.
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- Bookseller
- E. Manning Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1275
- Title
- Out of the Blue: A Pilot with the Chindits
- Author
- O'Brien, Terence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002171988
- ISBN 13
- 9780002171984
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Military, History, RAF, Air Force, World War II, Burma
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military & Military History;
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About the Seller
E. Manning Books
Biblio member since 2010
Robertsdale, Alabama
About E. Manning Books
I am a full-time independent internet only bookseller with a growing general stock of collectible, out-of-print, and quality second-hand books. I have been an avid collector since 1997 and am an alumnus of the 2001 Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar. I proclaim no specialty, but tend to focus on Australiana, History/Military History and Vintage Paperbacks.Address: P.O. Box 801, Robertsdale, AL 36567-0801Email: manningbooks@gmail.com."Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." ~P.J. O'Rourke, Author/Political Satirist
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