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WERRAN, KATE: : UK.BARNSLEY,SOUTH YORKSHIRE.PEN & SWORD HISTORY,2020

AN AMERICAN UPRISING IN SECOND WORLD WAR ENGLAND: MUTINY IN THE DUCHY.

ISBN 9781526759542.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[First published in Great Britain,2020,and reprinted by Pen & Sword History,2020. A 1st edn thus - even as a reprint by this publisher.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-removal from dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,contemporary colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj, with capitalised mixture of graduated black+ brown lettered part-title,capitalised black-lettered sub-title and capitalised white-lettered author's name to its lower edge; spine/ backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author+title as front,with thumbnail illustration detail from front too,and publisher's brown+black lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with montaged coloured map of Cornwall and contemporary b/w photograph beneath it. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges bright and crisp,clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain pale grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettered spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn thus,viii-xviiipp+4-234pp [paginated] includes verso of Contents list/ table,illustrations list/table,Dramatis Personae,3 separate b/w maps - Great Britain, Cornwall and Launceston street map respectively, a Prologue,Pts I-VI comprising 19 chapters in total,an Epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp110/111,a Postscript,Acknowledgements,Notes and Secondary Reading; plus [unpaginated] half-title with a dedication to its reverse,title pages3 epigrams (extracts from Letters from US Base Censor,March 1-15,1944 + Roi Ottley's World War II),recto of Contents list/table,individual Pts separator pages,and to the rear 2pp blanks.                Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness and brightness and lack of detracting faults.A welcome addition of a little-known and long forgotted event pieced together for the first time.                      This is the incredible story of a Second World War shoot-out between black and white American soldiers in a quiet Cornish town that ended up putting the special relationship' itself on trial. The subsequent court martial into what tabloids labelled a wild west' mutiny became front page news in Great Britain and the USA. Three thousand miles across the Atlantic, it mirrored and bolstered a fast-accelerating civil rights movement. At home it caused Churchill himself grave anxiety' while refracting an extraordinary truth about the real state of Anglo-American relations. For three long days the story raged before the turbulent war-torn world moved on and forgot forever amid ever-escalating D-Day preparations. This account of a shocking drama the authorities tried to hush up has been painstakingly pieced back together for the first time thanks to new archival research. When slotted into its unique context, extracted from wartime cabinet documents, secret government surveys, opinion polls, diaries, letters and newspapers as well as testimony from those who remember it, the story offers a rare and stunning window into a little-known dark side of the American Invasion.' By breathing new life into a vanished trial, it reveals a rare and surprising insight into the wider story of how Britain reacted to soldiers of the Jim Crow army when they came to stay.                      This is the first-time telling of an extraordinary WW2 story about a mutiny among African-American soldiers in Britain and the court martial that followed. Not only did the drama grip the United Kingdom and America - it just happened to involve soldiers from one of the battalion's that went on famously to face Omaha Beach on D-Day. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.    ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st thus,reprint.
Not SIGNED.

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