Four Thousand Bowls of Rice A Prisoner of War Comes Home by Linda Goetz Holmes ISBN 13: 9781863735797

UsedGood. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

St. Leonards, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 1863735798 . Index, notes, photos. The author was an Australian engineer-soldier and Japanese prisoner of war during World War II. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 179 pages .

St. Leonards: Allen. very nice copy; a vivid picture of Australians as POWs of the Japanese . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1993.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Unwin Hyman, 1994. Book. Very Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The publisher's review notice is laid in..

Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 6x1x9. Illustrated. Signed by the author. This work tells how one prisoner of war prepared himself, mentally and physically, for his journey home after three and a half years of brutal captivity in Java, Burma and Thailand during World War II. Staff Sergeant Cecil Dickson was a member of the 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion, which was forced to surrender to the Japanese in March 1942. His engineering unit bore the heaviest work in constructing the Burma-Thailand railway. The author draws on Dickson's letters home to his wife, and on research and interviews with many surviving Pioneers, to paint a dramatic picture of prisoner-of-war life under the Japanese. Readers can discover what it felt like to emerge abruptly from one day's starvation to the next day's air-drops, and from being in regimented captivity to being in charge of one's own time again. Dickson's writings also provide a glimpse of one man's… Read More

AUSTRALIA: ALLEN & UNWIN. owner's name to title page. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1993.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited (Australia), 1994-08. Hardcover. New. **Formerly owned by Sen. Bob Dole, inscribed by author** Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Hardcover and dust jacket. Ships daily.

Unwin Hyman, 1994-08-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!