Arthur titherington (16 risultati)

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Crisp clean covers, sound binding, clean pages and inside covers. Contains black and white illustrations. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. ISBN: 0620254416. ISBN/EAN: 9780620254410. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 65625011005. All our books are sent by tracked mail. …

Softcover. Condizione: Good. 2nd edition . Heavy, extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. 2nd edition. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Internally, light foxing. Otherwise clean. Tightly bound. r*27/11/2024. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Arthur Titherington?s One Day at a Time is a cheerful little reminder that joining the Army to ?see the world? can, under certain historical circumstances, be one of the worst travel decisions available. Young Arthur signs up, the Empire does its usual paperwork, Singapore falls, and suddenly the brochure has changed from ?adventure and service? to ?Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, starvation menu, compulsory mining, no refunds.? This is his account of 1,300 days as a British POW, including Kinkaseki, the copper mine in Taiwan where men were worked like machinery, except machinery usually gets oil, shelter, and slightly better union representation. The title sounds almost cosy, as if someone is about to explain how to organise your shed or cope with retirement using a notebook and a nice cup of tea. Instead it means exactly what it says: get through today; tomorrow can be horrible when it arrives. There are no glossy war-film heroics here, no stirring soundtrack, no officer leaning nobly against a map while someone says ?by God, Jenkins? This is war after the flags have been folded away and the human body has been left to argue with hunger, fear, cruelty and exhaustion. Titherington writes as someone who was there, endured it, remembered it, and then had the audacity to expect the world not to mislay the whole thing in a drawer marked ?unpleasant but over? Naturally, officialdom also appears, because no British wartime story is complete without somebody in later years explaining, with a straight face and a clean tie, why compensation is complicated. Having survived the Japanese camps, Titherington then had to take on the even colder machinery of governments, claims, apologies, evasions and the great imperial pastime of hoping old soldiers will stop making a fuss before anyone has to write a cheque. So yes, this is a POW memoir, but not one sitting politely in the corner being grateful for a commemorative plate. It is angry, plain-spoken, stubborn and necessary: the testimony of a man who went through hell, came back weighing rather less than intended, and spent decades making sure the names and facts did not get softened into ?hard times? by people whose idea of hardship is a delayed lunch. Very Good copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books, with an extra plastic protective dust jacket ? which is frankly more protection than the British Empire managed to provide at several key moments. A serious book, a battered century, and one survivor?s refusal to let the whole miserable business be filed away as character-building. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. xxx, 458 p. : ill., 1 map ; 25 cm. ; LCCn 2004054193 ; ISBN 9781400064137, 1400064139 ; OCLC 56413352 ; black cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Author's note -- Map : Construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway -- The "Fepow" prayer -- Introduction -- Part one. Surrender -- Interlude : "We feel let down rather" -- Changi -- Interlude : Christmas in captivity -- The railway of death -- Interlude : A walk along the River Kwai -- The real story of the bridge on the River Kwai -- Interlude : Boon Pong -- "Speedo" -- Interlude : Smokey Joe's -- Sonkurai : Valley of the Shadow of Death -- Interlude : Ave Maria -- The railway opens -- Part two. Survival -- Cooks Food -- Religion -- Jungle medicine -- Smoking Gone with the Wind -- King Rat -- Letters -- Entertainment -- Sports -- Ingenuity -- The "canaries" -- Officers and gentlemen -- Part three. The hellships -- Interlude : A happy ending -- Japan -- Interlude : The "Jap-happy" -- Haruku -- Interlude : A conjuring trick -- Sandakan -- Interlude : Mozart -- Changi 1944-45 -- Interlude : "Don't let this thing drag on much longer" -- Freedom -- Interlude : Bushido -- Home at last -- Epilogue : The last post -- Postscript : What became of them? ; FINE/FINE. Book. …

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers As New octavo xvi + 279pp., b/w pls., map, appends., bibliog., index, A British POW's account of 1300 days in a Japanese slave labour camp.

(rep) Col.Ill.wrapps. 279pp. + 16pp. of b/w plates. Very good copy. Arthur Titherington was captured by the Japanese army during the fall of Singapore & spent the rest of the war in Kinkaseki POW Camp. After the war he led the fight for an apology for POWs treatment.

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers, 279pp, b&w plates. A little light wear on cover edges/corners; a very good copy. Titherington, a British soldier, was captured at Singapore and was taken as a POW to work in the copper mines at Taiwan (Formosa). This tells of his experiences as a POW in Kinkaseki Prisoner of War Camp Number One. Includes list of prisoners at Kinkaseki.…

313 pp including index, b&w photographic illustrations, fine copy in like, pictorial d/j. Later title: "Kinkaseki: One day at a time" - Kinkaseki was the name of this hell-camp in Taiwan.