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A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: Memoirs of a Wartime Boomtown.
by Jones, Wilbur D., Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket./like
- ISBN 10
- 1572493259
- ISBN 13
- 9781572493254
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About This Item
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania:: White Mane Books,, (2002). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First edition. A "social history of the life and culture of the World War II home front in Wilmington and Southeastern North Carolina" based on first hand accounts, newspaper articles and the author's boyhood remembrances. Wilmington, NC became "a mighty contributor to the war effort and the country's unique wartime boomtown, earning it the right to be proclaimed as 'America's World War II City.' The area had all the armed forces stationed in large numbers, a shipyard producing 243 cargo vessels, the vital state port, industries at capacity, and German prisoner of war camps. Thousands left to fight; 191 New Hanover County boys died. It endured constant civilian defense drills and restrictions, U-boats sinking ships offshore (one fired on a defense plant), and until 1944, the threat of attack. The population nearly tripled." SIGNED on the front endpaper with the words "best wishes." Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xxvii, 318 pp. Promotional folder laid in.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77823
- Title
- A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY: Memoirs of a Wartime Boomtown.
- Author
- Jones, Wilbur D., Jr
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1572493259
- ISBN 13
- 9781572493254
- Publisher
- White Mane Books,
- Place of Publication
- Shippensburg, Pennsylvania:
- Date Published
- (2002)
- Keywords
- autobiography, north carolina, south, world war ii, homefront, defense work,
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: USA;
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