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The Code of Love A true story
de Linklater, Andro
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- ISBN 10
- 0297643584
- ISBN 13
- 9780297643586
- Librería
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2000. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 235 pages. Tells the moving true story of a love that survives separation, madness and war. In 1939 Pamela Kirrage became engaged to a young RAF pilot Donald Hill. But with the onset of WW2 their plans fell apart. Hill was transferred to Hong Kong and sensing that he was caught up in the sweep of great events he began a diary in an old school exercise book. However, officers were prohibited from keeping such records and Hill devised a secret code that transformed his works into numbers. With the fall of Hong Kong, Hill became a POW but took his diary with him. This book is the story of Pamela's search to break the code in the book and to discover what Hill had endured and how it had affected him. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
Sinopsis
For fifty years, Pamela Kirrage longed to unlock the secrets of her husband's encrypted war diary. She was on the verge of giving up when she at last found a mathematician who became as obsessed with learning the secrets of the diary as she was. After months of painstaking investigation, he was finally able to crack the code, and in the process uncover the ending to an extraordinary World War II romance.Pamela fell in love with RAF pilot Donald Hill in the summer of 1939, just a few months before he was sent to fight in Pacific. Although they planned to marry soon, Donald was captured after siege of Hong Kong and spent the next four years in a Japanese POW camp. Donald ultimately returned to Pamela, but he was never able to tell her about those lost years--and Pamela became convinced that the key to their happiness lay within the mysterious diary he brought back from the war. In The Code of Love Andro Linklater uses the decoded diary as well as extensive research and interviews to paint a vivid portrait of the World War II era, turning this dramatic love story into an inspiring, unconventional epic.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Librería
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- BIB225068
- Título
- The Code of Love A true story
- Autor
- Linklater, Andro
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado -
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0297643584
- ISBN 13
- 9780297643586
- Editorial
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Biography;
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Adelaide Booksellers
Miembro de Biblio desde 2004
Clarence Gardens, South Australia
Sobre Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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