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Prisoner of War: History of the "Lost Battalion", 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery
by Clyde Fillmore (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£60.50£42.35
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About This Item
Wichita Falls, TX: Nortex Offset Publications, 1973 Nortex Offset Publications, Wichita Falls, TX. 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the FFFP verso dated May 20, 1973. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; scant shelfwear to board edges; small smudge on the front board. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($5.95); sunfading to spine; missing small pieces at head; light wear to flap folds. Tan tweed cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine and front board.152 pp 8vo. This is the story of the 2nd Bn, 131st Field Artillery, 36th Division of the Texas National Guard that was mobilized in November 1940 and sent to Australia and later to Java, Dutch East Indies. This unit was cut off by the Japanese Army and without communication, became the "Lost Battalion" as 345 members were placed in a POW camp until the end of WWII. They were POWs in Java, and later in Thailand where they were forced to build a railroad to Burma under the harshest of jungle conditions. Fillmore was returned to the US in September 1945. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015175
- Title
- Prisoner of War: History of the "Lost Battalion", 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery
- Author
- Clyde Fillmore (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Nortex Offset Publications
- Place of Publication
- Wichita Falls, TX
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- World War II, Java Dutch East Indies, Thailand, Prisoners of War, POWs, Texas National Guard, Railroad construction, Burma, United States Army,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Prisoner of War; Autobiography;
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Brodart
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