St Lucia, University of Queensland Press first edition - hard cover in dust jacket On 5th August 1944, more than 900 Japanese prisoners-of-war made a suicidal attempt to break out of their prison camp at Cowra. Of the 1,104 Japanese in the camp, 234 were killed and 108 wounded. A similar incident at Featherstone Camp, Wellington, New Zealand left 48 dead and 63 wounded. In each case it appeared they would rather seek death than freedom. Why was this so? 224 x 143mm., pp. xvi, 225, b/w plates, biblio., index. Contents, no inscriptions; d.j., sl. rub. front/back/edges. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0702212261 Date: 1978. St Lucia, University of Queensland Press ISBN 0702212261 9780702212260 [AU]

ISBN10: 0702212261, ISBN13: 9780702212260, [publisher: University of Queensland Press] Hardcover Very Good
[liverpool, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1978]

St. Lucia, Qld University of Queensland Press 1978 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good in Very Good jacket 8vo. xvi, 225pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw photos, line drawings/plans. Or green cloth in jacket. Minor foxing to endpapers and light foxing to page edges. Light edge wear to boards and jacket. Describes the events of the attempted break outs by Japanese POWs at Featherstone in New Zealand and Cowra in Australia, and appraises them from the point of view of the social anthropologist.

St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, Date: 1978. xvi, 225pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw photos, line drawings/plans. Or green cloth in jacket. Minor foxing to endpapers and light foxing to page edges. Light edge wear to boards and jacket. Describes the events of the attempted break outs by Japanese POWs at Featherstone in New Zealand and Cowra in Australia, and appraises them from the point of view of the social anthropologist.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 1978. University of Queensland Press ISBN 0702212261 9780702212260 [AU]

ISBN10: 0702212261, ISBN13: 9780702212260, [publisher: University of Queensland Press] Hardcover 1978, First edition. A very good copy only marked by light shelf rubbing to the base of the boards and light age tanning of the edges. The d/w is also very good.
[York, WA, Australia] [Publication Year: 1978]