The Last Escape: the Launching of the Largest Secret Rescue Movement of All Time
by Aliav, Ruth & Mann, Peggy
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0575017937
- ISBN 13
- 9780575017931
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Victor Gollancz, London, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 950 g; X, 518 pages, with black-and-white photographic frontispiece, and 19 appendices. Colour decorated dust jacket. There is some rubbing to both the top and bottom edges of the dust jacket. Slight scuff mark on the bottom edge of the text block from contact with the shelf, and minor handling marks. . This book is the hardly credible account of how a network of only 10 people managed between them to save the lives of many thousands of Jews who would otherwise have been doomed to die in Hitler's concentration camps. (200,000 were eventually saved and smuggled into Palestine when the rest of the world was "regretfully" barring its doors to them.) -- dust jacket blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History -- Israel; ISBN: 0575017937. ISBN/EAN: 9780575017931. Inventory No: 0221818. . 9780575017931
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0221818
- Title
- The Last Escape: the Launching of the Largest Secret Rescue Movement of All Time
- Author
- Aliav, Ruth & Mann, Peggy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0575017937
- ISBN 13
- 9780575017931
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- BZDB2 World War II, judaica, Europe, Palestine, Israel, exodus, relocation Ruth Kluger History; History -- Israel; Unbranded ISBN: 0575017937 EAN: 9780575017931 Aliav, Ruth & Mann, Peggy The Last Escape: the Launching of the Largest Secret Rescue Mo
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General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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