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Tunes of Glory
por Kennaway, James
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0919630871
- ISBN 13
- 9780919630871
- Livreiro
-
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
Toronto, ON: Lester and Orpen Dennys. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. 0919630871 . Some scuffing and edgewear of the dustjacket, slight soil to boards, light soil top page edges. ; A bright, solid book Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. This classic military novel was first published by Putnam in the UK in 1956 and made into a highly regarded movie starring Alec Guinness. lester and Orpen Dennys has incorporated it into its well regarded International Fiction List. ; International Fiction List #8; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages; "Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldier's soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command of the Battalion he has long admired, the one that Jock Sinclair has served in since he was a boy. In the claustrophobic world of Campbell barracks, a conflict is inevitable between the two men and a tragedy unfolds with concentrated and ferocious power.James Kennaway served in a Highland regiment himself, and his feeling for 'tunes of glory, for the glamour and brutality of army life gives added authenticity and humour to this, his first and most famous novel." .
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 19637
- Título
- Tunes of Glory
- Autor
- Kennaway, James
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edição
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0919630871
- ISBN 13
- 9780919630871
- Editorial
- Lester and Orpen Dennys
- Local de publicação
- Toronto, ON
- Data de publicação
- 1980
- Palavras-chave
- 0919630871, sandhurst, scotland, WWII
- Catálogos de livreiros
- British Fiction; Fiction;
Termos da venda
Ainsworth Books
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Sobre o Vendedor
Ainsworth Books
Membro de Biblio desde 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
Sobre Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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