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Angels of Burma.[Author SIGNED copy.]
de SLOGGETT, DIANE [later Mackenzie]:
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- FINE./FINE..
- ISBN 10
- 1858217881
- ISBN 13
- 9781858217888
- Librería
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PLYMOUTH., Devon, United Kingdom
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UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat handwritten,blue ink inscptn+Christian name signature: 'For Patricia Ash. Who was a member like me of the S.J.A.B & also met Lady Louis Mountbatten from the author with best wishes Diane' to front free endpaper and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,author's contemporary portrait b/w photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked bronze gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers - inscrptn to ffe excepted.UK,slim, small 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,viipp+1-53pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,a foreword,6 chapters and an epilogue, contemporary b/w autobiographical photographs,a b/w regional map; plus [unpaginated] dedicated+SIGNED ffe,half-title+title pages and a dedication,blank reverse of last page of epilogue and further 2pp blanks at the rear of the book.
When Diane Sloggett was only 19 years old and a St. John's Ambulance Brigade V.A.D.,she made a decision which would take her from the tranquillity of the convalescent home in which she was then working to a front-line hospital in Burma.It was 1944 and Lady Louis Mountbatten recruited 200 of these V.A.D.s to help the over-worked Q.A.s attached to the 14th Army.In intense heat and very poor living conditions,these courageous young women were to be pushed to their limit - they would come face to face with the atrocious injuries of war.
'Angels of Burma' is the story of how these young women were transported on a packed troopship,in the deepest secrecy,to Bombay. From there,they were posted in pairs to the hospitals where they were so greatly needed.Diane Slogget was to find herself in the hospital at Panitola.
In moving detail she relates her experiences.There was much to be learned on the wards,where Penicillin had just become the new wonder drug.Night duty was suddenly alive with the additional hazards and strange noises of this exotic land - jackals prowled! Not to be forgotten, however,are the bonds of friendships formed, the camaraderie,the fortitude,the fun - off-duty and at Christmas - the romances which blossomed.
Diane Sloggett is one very fine example of the many who learned to survive and smile in the face of adversity. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.
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- Librería
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- rja822718
- Título
- Angels of Burma.[Author SIGNED copy.]
- Autor
- SLOGGETT, DIANE [later Mackenzie]:
- Ilustrador
- illus with contemporary b/w auto+biographical photographs.
- Estado del libro
- Usado - FINE.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- FINE..
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1858217881
- ISBN 13
- 9781858217888
- Editorial
- UK.BISHOP AUCKLAND,DURHAM.THE PENTLAND PRESS LTD.,2000.
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2000
- Palabras clave
- q52.SIGNED.BIOGRAPHY.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.ISBN 1858217881.Military History_WW2,1939-1945_Burma,Panitola_nursing biographies_memoirs.St. John's Ambulance Brigade_V.A.Ds_Burma_14th Army.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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