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I'm No Hero : A POW Story as told to Glen DeWerff
by Plumb, Charlie and Glen DeWerff
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1881886018
- ISBN 13
- 9781881886013
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Santa Barbara, CA: J. Charles Plumb, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s). 29th Printing This is the Twenty-ninth Printing published in March 2003. First Printing was November 1973. Hard cover in very good condition with deep rose boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight. Author's signed inscription on front fly leaf - see photo; fills the whole page (signature not authenticated.) Dust jacket very good with some shelf & edge wear; chips at top of jacket. * From the book, "". . . the story of Charlie Plumb, but it is also the story of all the POW's who faced an isolated world of degradation, loneliness, tedium, hunger, and pain. It is no pretty story. It tells of the torture room with walls built to muffle human screams, of the ""rope trick"" and ""fanbelt"" techniques designed to make a man talk, of illness, of insanity. But it also tells of the ingenuity and creativity which allowed the men to outsmart their guards and to set up communication systems, classes, escape plans, and to maintain their chain of command.""
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001263
- Title
- I'm No Hero : A POW Story as told to Glen DeWerff
- Author
- Plumb, Charlie and Glen DeWerff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1881886018
- ISBN 13
- 9781881886013
- Publisher
- J. Charles Plumb
- Place of Publication
- Santa Barbara, CA
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Biography, Charlie Plumb, Vietnam War 1961 to 1975 - North Vietnamese Prisoners and Prisons, Vietnam War 1961 to 1975 - American Personal Narratives
- Bookseller catalogs
- History of the Vietnam War 1961-1975; Military Art & Science; Biography;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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