2,355 Days - A POW's Story
by Nasmyth, Spike [Signed]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0517584204
- ISBN 13
- 9780517584200
- Seller
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Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Orion Books, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by author to a friend atop front free endpaper. 264 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Spike Nasmyth tells the harrowing tale of his six and a half years as a POW in Hanoi in this true, honest, raunchy, defiant, sometimes funny, but always deeply moving story of lost youth and survival in the face of uncertainty, cruelty, and deprivation. His world came crashing down when a North Vietnamese missile shot his Phantom out of the sky over Hanoi, beginning a long ordeal of brutal imprisonment at the hands of his Communist captors." - dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this incredibly inspirational tale of survival..
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- Bookseller
- RareNonFiction.com (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 342h5542
- Title
- 2,355 Days - A POW's Story
- Author
- Nasmyth, Spike [Signed]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517584204
- ISBN 13
- 9780517584200
- Publisher
- Orion Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Spike Nasmyth, Vietnamese Conflict 1961-1975 - Prisoners and Prisons - North Vietnamese, Vietnamese Conflict 1961-1975 - Personal Narratives American, Hanoi, Hanoi Hilton,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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