Publisher:
London, W. H. Allen: (1960)
Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Some chips and tears to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 223, [1 (blank)] pages + 20 illustrations on 4 plates leaves. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 217 x 138mm. Military history, World War Two. "This unusual war story deals with the life and adventures of a British seaman in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation. Jim Cumming, a Sheffield man, was ashore when the survivors of the river gunboat Peteral were taken prisoner, and he managed to escape detection for four years, durin...
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