A Formidable Hero; LT R.H. Gray, VC, DSC, RCNVR
by Soward, Stuart E. (Biography of R.H. "Hammy" Gray.)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 096907039X
- ISBN 13
- 9780969070399
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: CANAV Books [0-9690703-9-X] 1987, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 187pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Photographs, maps, apppendix, index. The dust jacket is faded, and there is a scar on the front endpaper from an address label that was removed. "A Formidable Hero is the long-awaited biography of Lieutenant R.H. 'Hammy' Gray, one of Canada's last war heroes. Here is the story of a young British Columbian who, along with several friends, joins the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve. It is early in the war and he is flying with the Fleet Air Arm - just months earlier he had been a budding student at the University of British Columbia!". Biography of R.H. "Hammy" Gray. Book about Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve. Locale: British Columbia-Canada. (Military--Canada, Aviation--Military, Biography, Fleet Air Arm, Military--Canada, World War 2, World War II).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154493
- Title
- A Formidable Hero; LT R.H. Gray, VC, DSC, RCNVR
- Author
- Soward, Stuart E. (Biography of R.H. "Hammy" Gray.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 096907039X
- ISBN 13
- 9780969070399
- Publisher
- CANAV Books
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- This edition first published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Military--Canada, Aviation--Military, Biography, Fleet Air Arm, Military--Canada, World War 2, World War II
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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