Book Details
Title: The Hotel Tacloban
Author: Douglas Valentine
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Angus and Robertson
Year: 1985
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 138
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-207-14999-2
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact and unclipped. There is some shelf wear to edges/ends/corners, with rubbing, minor creasing to edges and a couple of small tears and chips. It has been kept in a plastic sleeve (and remains so). Minor scuffing. Some transfer of colour from the hardcover to the inside of the flaps.
The hardcover is intact with shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. Crushing of spine ends and bumping of corners. The embossing on the spine is intact and legible. Colour is uneven/patchy in places.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"In this extraordinary story of World War II the author's father, who enlisted in the army aged only sixteen, relates years later to his son the incredible and horrifying experiences which profoundly affected the course of his life.
He describes his capture by the Japanese in the fetid jungles of New Guinea, the annihilation of his entire squad, and how he, the lone survivor, was shipped to live with Australian and British prisoners of war in a squalid, degrading camp in the Philippines that came to be known as the Hotel Tacloban. It was a place in which no mercy was shown or expected and from which few emerged alive.
In the book's startling climax - a celebration of the power of soldier's camaraderie to transcend adversity - Valentine reveals mutiny, murder and a possible "cover-up" by the Allied military authorities."
Book Details
Title: The Hotel Tacloban
Author: Douglas Valentine
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Angus and Robertson
Year: 1985
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 138
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-207-14999-2
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact and unclipped. There is some shelf wear to edges/ends/corners, with rubbing, minor creasing to edges and a couple of small tears and chips. It has been kept in a plastic sleeve (and remains so). Minor scuffing. Some transfer of colour from the hardcover to the inside of the flaps.
The hardcover is intact with shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. Crushing of spine ends and bumping of corners. The embossing on the spine is intact and legible. Colour is uneven/patchy in places.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"In this extraordinary story of World War II the author's father, who enlisted in the army aged only sixteen, relates years later to his son the incredible and horrifying experiences which profoundly affected the course of his life.
He describes his capture by the Japanese in the fetid jungles of New Guinea, the annihilation of his entire squad, and how he, the lone survivor, was shipped to live with Australian and British prisoners of war in a squalid, degrading camp in the Philippines that came to be known as the Hotel Tacloban. It was a place in which no mercy was shown or expected and from which few emerged alive.
In the book's startling climax - a celebration of the power of soldier's camaraderie to transcend adversity - Valentine reveals mutiny, murder and a possible "cover-up" by the Allied military authorities."
