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Century. Very Good/Very Good. 1983. Hard Cover. 8vo 0712601600 Dust jacket in a clear protective sleeve, unclipped, tears, . Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Illustrated, photographs.280 pages clean and tight. Of Love and I4ar is a genuinely original and moving memoir of World War II centred on the handwritten diaries of an Australian officer, Captain Adrian Curlewis, who witnessed the fall of Singapore and spent nearly four years as a prisoner of the Japanese at Changi Gaol and on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. What makes this book unique is not only Adrian Curlewis's diary but also the interleaving of his entries with the letters sent by his wife Betty and the diary kept by his mother at home in Sydney. These give an intimate picture of a family parted by war -'1800 days of separated lives' in Adrian's phrase. Edited by Adrian's daughter nearly 40 years after they were written, these letters and diaries recreate…
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Of Love and War The Letters and Diaries of Captain Adrian Curlewis and His Family 1939-1945 Hardcover - 1983
by Adrian Curlewis; Philippa Poole
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- Title Of Love and War The Letters and Diaries of Captain Adrian Curlewis and His Family 1939-1945
- Author Adrian Curlewis; Philippa Poole
- Binding Hardcover
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- Publisher Arrow (A Division of Random House Group), London
- Date April 21, 1983
- ISBN 9780712601603
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(Subject: Political & Biographies - General) The diaries of Captain Adrian Curlewis, who witnessed the fall of Singapore and was a POW in Changi for nearly four years, working on the Burma Railway. Interleaved with the entries are the letters sent by his wife and the diary kept by his mother in Australia. A unique picture of a family parted by war. (Published: 1989) (Publisher: Century Publishing) (ISBN: 0712601600) (Pagination: 280pp, 84 illustrations, index) (Condition: vg in dw) UL-XXXXXX
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Of love and war : the letters and diaries of Captain Adrian Curlewis and his family 1939-1945 / [edited by] Philippa Poole
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London : Century, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 280p. : ill., facsims.,1geneal.table,maps,1plan,ports. ; 26cm. Subjects; Curlewis, Adrian Sir 1901. World War, 1939-1945 � Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. World War, 1939-1945 � Personal narratives, Australian.
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