Paperback. Zustand: Good+. Pan MacMillan 2006 Good+/ Creasing to front of bright glossy cover, Tight pages. In Plastic.
softcover. Zustand: NF.
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
EUR 8,33
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Anbieter: Happy Heroes, Monroe, NJ, USA
softcover. Zustand: VG.
Anbieter: Happy Heroes, Monroe, NJ, USA
softcover. Zustand: VG.
softcover. Zustand: VG.
Anbieter: Happy Heroes, Monroe, NJ, USA
softcover. Zustand: VG.
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Solid with a small crease on the right edge of the front cover and the covers show light wear.
Verlag: U.S. National Section, Pan American Institute of Geography and History, 1971
Anbieter: GuthrieBooks, Spring Branch, TX, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. Trade Paperback. Good. General used condition. Evident wear. Name inside. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding.
Verlag: Pan American Institute of Geography and History, US National Section, Department of State, Washington DC, 1971
Anbieter: Bookworm Books, Tifton, GA, USA
Paper Cover. Zustand: Very Good. 39pp. A listing of documents on colonial Peru held in the national archives of Colombia. No marks in text. Very Good Size: 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Book.
Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Peek's book is about the three years and more he spent working on the railway the Japanese forced their prisoners to build through Thailand to Burma during the second world war. What makes the book unusual is not Peek's abiding hatred of the Japanese. If you had survived what he did, while more than 20,000 PoWs had died (many fewer than the number of dead Thai, Malaysian and Burmese slave labourers), you would hate the Japanese too. He is generous enough, anyway, to recall his horror watching newsreels of German atrocities "carried out by nations we used to think were civilised and, indeed, almost our kith and kin". No, what surprises is Peek's hatred of Churchill and the other war leaders he alleges ordered the abject surrender of Singapore, where Peek had lived for most of his 20 years. Even worse, he writes, were the inadequate equipment and training of the British forces in Singapore, although thousands of volunteers, like him, flocked to the colours and were eager to fight. "Surely," Peek writes, "the truth will come out some day when the stringencies of war have gone and guilty men can be named in public." Almost as unsettling is Peek's condemnation of the officers in the camps who, with a few exceptions - one or two colonels and all the doctors - shirked their duty to look after their men by rarely appearing among them, speaking to them rudely when they did, while enjoying relatively good rations, wearing uniforms instead of loincloths, reading, playing bridge and even fishing. Of one such officer, he writes: "To what extent is this colonel's obsession with his precious self-dignity responsible for the camp's abysmal squalor, the hundreds of deaths already and the hundreds more which will surely happen? [To his men] he is, despite his Military Cross, a moral coward at the lowest level, putting his personal dignity before their desperate needs." The needs were desperate. Almost everyone had diarrhoea all the time, there was no toilet paper, the latrines overflowed, and men emptied their bowels squatting with their bare feet in the shit of their comrades. There is plenty of detail of how skin ulcers - which cost Peek's brother his leg - look, feel and smell, and how the men strove to preserve their modesty by mending their bedraggled loincloths (they had no other clothes except hats).
Zustand: Very Good.
Paperback. Zustand: Good.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.
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Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Erstausgabe
Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition.
Paperback. Zustand: Good.
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Paperback. Zustand: Good.
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, US, 2001
ISBN 10: 0330363263 ISBN 13: 9780330363266
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Paperback. Zustand: Good.
Paperback. Zustand: Good.
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