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SEEDS OF HOPE: An Engineer's World War II Letters
by SABEL, William O
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 1557531315
- ISBN 13
- 9781557531315
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About This Item
West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, ( 1999 ). First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 233, [ii] pages, cloth
Signed by Sabel, and dated 1999, under the portrait frontispiece. Sabel enlisted in April, 1941, and served three years as an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific. His 300 letters home offer a different view of the war - not of heroics and battle, but of war's tedium, discomfort, and inefficiency. Bored but never boring, Sabel is frank in his criticism of those in command as he is in affectionately scolding his mother for sending such perishables as strawberries and chocolate to the tropics. A farmer from Marshall County, Indiana, Sabel also managed a farm on Kalumbangara to supply the hospital an Munda with fresh fruits and vegetables.
Signed by Sabel, and dated 1999, under the portrait frontispiece. Sabel enlisted in April, 1941, and served three years as an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific. His 300 letters home offer a different view of the war - not of heroics and battle, but of war's tedium, discomfort, and inefficiency. Bored but never boring, Sabel is frank in his criticism of those in command as he is in affectionately scolding his mother for sending such perishables as strawberries and chocolate to the tropics. A farmer from Marshall County, Indiana, Sabel also managed a farm on Kalumbangara to supply the hospital an Munda with fresh fruits and vegetables.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0011135
- Title
- SEEDS OF HOPE
- Author
- SABEL, William O
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1557531315
- ISBN 13
- 9781557531315
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Place of Publication
- West Lafayette, IN
- Date Published
- ( 1999 )
- Keywords
- world war II, pacific theater, indiana author, new hebrides, solomon islands, Hollandia, new guinea, dutch new guinea, dutch east indies, army corps of engineers,
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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