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HOW YOUNG THEY DIED.
by Cloete, Stuart
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Collins, 1969. 383 pp, 8 1/2" H. The author of this fictionalized account served with the Coldstream Guards in the First Wold War, receiving five wounds and losing almost every one of his school friends - he writes from experience. "Jim Hilton is a subaltern of nineteen when he goes out to Flanders for the first time in April 1916, and a veteran of twenty-one, twice wounded, married, gazetted Major, by the time his story ends. It is a story of courage and the waste of human life in the bloody carnage of the Ypres Salient and the Battle of the Somme that could have been written only by someone who was there and saw it, who was a participant in the struggle in which millions of men fought and died for narrow stretches of shattered ground and useless villages in an unending sea of mud." Bequest bookplate on front free endpaper, minor edge wear to boards, minor browning at the top/bottom edges of the spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear, two small closed tears with crease, tiny tears and wear at top of flap-folds, minor soiling, now protected in removable mylar sleeve. . Not Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Roger Coleman, dust jacket art..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10644
- Title
- HOW YOUNG THEY DIED.
- Author
- Cloete, Stuart
- Illustrator
- Roger Coleman, dust jacket art.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- First World War, World War I, Fictionalized Accounts, Stuart Cloete, Soldiers, Trenches, Trench Warfare, Jim Hilton, Flanders, Ypres, Ypres Salient, Battle of Somme, The Somme, Love, Families, Home Leave, Military Novels.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military - First World War; Military - Fiction;
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About the Seller
Capricorn Books
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Oakville, Ontario
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