A history of a legendary ship's career and her final desperate race to Palestine with 4,500 survivors of the Holocaust fleeing postwar Europe.
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A history of a legendary ship's career and her final desperate race to Palestine with 4,500 survivors of the Holocaust fleeing postwar Europe.
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Add this copy of Exodus 1947 to cart. $2.19, good condition, Sold by Neil Shillington rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hobe Sound, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Little Brown & Co..
Add this copy of Exodus 1947 to cart. $6.95, very good condition, Sold by Gian Luigi Fine Books, Inc. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Albany, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by LITTLE, BROWN & CO..
Add this copy of Exodus 1947 to cart. $7.00, very good condition, Sold by Bookwitch rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Concord, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1969,.
Publisher:
Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1969,
Published:
1969
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
9817712072
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, near fine in lightly edgeworn b & w pictorial dj. First Edition. American journalist Ruth Gruber stood on a wharf in Haifa as the Exodus 1947 limped into harbour. This book contains Gruber's images and text on the wretched camps in Europe where the refugees lived before boarding the Exodus 1947, as well as details of many passengers' eventual fates. 306 pp. including index.
Add this copy of Exodus 1947 to cart. $12.00, like new condition, Sold by Novel Ideas Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Decatur, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Naval Institute Press.
Add this copy of Exodus, 1947 to cart. $13.50, very good condition, Sold by Balcony Books and Music rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eugene, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Little, Brown & Co..
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Near Fine/Very Good Dust Jacket. The first edition, from 1969. A near fine hardcover, bright, solid and clean, 306 pages, with index, bibliography, appendix, and many historical photographs throughout. In a Very Good Dust Jacket, which has some chips and wear at edges, and is now protected in a mylar wrapper. EXODUS, 1947 is the biography of a remarkable ship, which began in 1928 as a pleasure liner, but in 1947 became known around the world as EXODUS, whose desperate flight to the shores of Palestine crowded with refugees became a symbol of hope. EXODUS, 1947 also tells of the men and women who gave it life and meaning and the main Resistance Group that made the mission possible-the HAGANAH.
Add this copy of Exodus 1947 to cart. $14.95, very good condition, Sold by The Book Bin rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Salem, OR, UNITED STATES, published by Little, Brown, Boston.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. > Edition/Printing: Stated First edition | Illus. 306 pp. Book is in Like New Condition. > DJ Very Good, light rubbing at corners. Has plastic cover over DJ. | > Language: English | > Size: 8vo-over 7 3/4 in-9 3/4 in Tall | > Media/Binding: Hardcover |
Add this copy of Exodus 1947 to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Little, Brown.
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Very Good. First edition. Very good minus hardcover. First edition. Minimal library markings. Text clean. Illustrated. Small yellow spots on outer edges of pages. Spine completely faded. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Add this copy of Exodus 1947 to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Little, Brown.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has some edgewear. Former Owner's name on front free endpaper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Add this copy of Exodus 1947 to cart. $30.00, like new condition, Sold by J Mercurio Books Maps & Prints rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Garrison, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Little Brown.
Add this copy of Exodus 1947 to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Naval Institute Press.
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Very good in very good jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xi, [1], 239, [3] p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Revised edition has added material. From an obituary posted on-line: "Mr. Holly turned his love for steamboats, in particular, and ships, in general, into a career, including 20 years of military service in the Navy, years of teaching at colleges and universities and writing four books. In 1969, his "Exodus 1947" was published. In it, he traced the career of the steamboat President Warfield, later to be remembered by another name, Exodus. Mr. Holly called the book a trilogy. He said it covers the golden days of steamboats, filled with glamour; it follows the ship's days as a warship, from the lend-lease British training ship to the control ship off Omaha Beach during the D-Day Invasion in World War II; and finally it describes the vessel's 1947 voyage. The ship's journey to Palestine was cut short when it tried to run a British blockade. During the confrontation, the crew of the President Warfield turned over the ship's name board to reveal "Exodus 1947."
This is a great book that cuts through the hype of the fictionalized accounts shown in the famous book and movie about the Exodus. The real story, portrayed here, tells how the ship was bought by overseers NY, refurbished in Baltimore, resupplied in Norfolk (it had to turn back on the Atlantic in a winter storm), got fuel during a national coal strike in Paulsoboro, NJ - and eventually got its last repairs and sailed from Philadelphia to Europe. Dr. Holly as done a magnificant piece of research here. He has found details from the General Warfield/Exodus 1947 early days as a Chesapeake Bay luxury steamer and its service for the US Navy in World War II France (as a port operations center after the Normandy landings). I could not believe that one man could do so much reseach and gain the confidence of so many people to tell him such secrets and details. I used some of Dr. Holly's research in two articles I wrote about the Exodus. I was able to inform (via an Israeli journalist) a professor now seeking to compile a list of all the Exodus refugees that there he should be looking among the Sephardic community because Dr. Holly writes of a group of Moroccan Sephardic Jews boarding the Exodus in Sete, France. I would not have known that fact but not for Dr. Holly's definitive research and writings. To some of you reading this are now confused because your knowledge of the Exodus comes largely from the Hollywood movie. I assure you Dr. Holly's account is the true one: the ship and its' refugee passengers did not come from Cyprus as the movie depicts. I can count on one hand great pieces modern of historical research that belong alongside this book in its dedicated effort to get to the truth.
