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BAKER, ALF 'BLACKIE': : "WHAT PRICE BUSHIDO?" [Author SIGNED+dedicated copy.]

UK.PEVERELL,PLYMOUTH,DEVON.A. T. J. BAKER,2001.

ISBN 1871330432.

UK,small 8vo wraps/softback,author SIGNED,rev'd+ enlarged,edn. [Originall,and first self-published,1991.This revised and enlarged edn,is author SIGNED and was published in 2001.] FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten,black inked dedication and signature thus: 'To Gordon Alf 'Blackie' Baker.' to title page.Bright, crisp,clean,wrap-around,card glossy dark green background covers with a cross-stich coloured embroidered F.E.P.O.W. circular badge to front cover along with capitalised white lettered title and pale blue lower case lettered author name and similarly coloured capitalised edition information,similarly formatted lettering for title+author to spine/backstrip which has NO reading creases; rear cover with white lettered book's synopsis to a black background panel on the cover. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners,no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edge with minimal smudge towards the fore-edges else bright and clean, fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread other than my own collation.UK,small 8vo wraps/softback,author SIGNED,rev'd+enlarged edn,ii-xiipp+1-228pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,other titles advert with dedication to its reverse, author's Acknowledgements,Author's Notes,with a b/w biographical photograph to its reverse.a Foreword (by author's wife) with n extract from a General Wavell letter to the reverse,47 sections/parts etc,Rolls of Honour for Rabaul and Ballali, contemporary b/w photographs,maps and facsimile document reproductions throughout the text,a bibliography and a Glossary: Japanese - Pidgin-English words. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age and nature, I.e. an ephemeral softback. It really is an exceptional,exemplary copy for its cleanliness and brightness. The true story of 600 Artillerymen captured by the japanese at the fall of Singapore and transferred by 'hell-ship' to Rabaul,New Britain.Three years later when released,only 18 remained alive. The story takes us through P.O.W. camps at Kokopo,Death Valley and Wantom Island.It tells us what happened to the 517 men taken from Rabaul to 'Ballali' in the Solomon Islands. 'What Price Bushido?' speaks of the brutal treatment,physical and psychological,inflicted by vivious captors and highlights the iron will needed to fight the war-within-a-war against depression and disease,starvation and the Japanese. Each chapter begins with a poem written especially for F.E.P.O.Ws (Far East Prisoners of War) bybJames Hacobian and relates to the chapter it heads.Photographs and maps accompany the text . A Roll of Honour lists all those who died at Rabaul and 504 of the men taken to Ballali from where there were no survivors.The survival rate from both camps was three percent.By 2002 only survivors remain alive - Ken walker and the author. Meanwhile many families still seek information on loved ones listed as 'missing with no known grave.'As a result of this book,but they may at last be helped,for all but 13 of the 600 men are now named. Please contact seller for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,small 8vo wraps/softback,author SIGNED,rev'd+enlarged,edn.
Author SIGNED+dedicated.

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