DIE LIKE THE CARP! The story of the greatest prison escape ever . . .
Edited by Carl Harrison-Ford. Pp. 240, 16 plates, endpaper plans, index; red boards, spine lettered in white; dust wrapper, verso lightly browned; leaves lightly browned; Cassell Australia, Sydney, 1979. Third printing. *With a loosely inserted relevant news cutting. 'In the early morning of 5 August 1944, outside the little Australian township of Cowra, the greatest prison break in world history occurred. More than 1100 Japanese prisoners of war took part, and 231 of them were killed; 334 of them actually escaped, and were captured over the next nine days by posses of police, soldiers and local farmers' [wrapper blurb]. Item #174186
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