Another River Kwai kwiz
January 2nd, 2009 From
>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 97 15:50:07 EDT
>From: Gordon Hogg
>Subject: Re: Another River Kwai kwiz
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>I just raided the stacks here for the 46th, 47th, and 48th volumes of _Jane’s
>Fighting Ships_, which show, respectively, the following years on >the spine and
>title page: 1942, 1943-4, and 1944-5. On the 1942 title page in parentheses
>are the words “issued June, 1943”; on that of 1943-4 I find >”corrected to July,
>1944″, and 1944-5 shows “corrected to April, 1945.”
>
>The publishers’ foreword in the 1943-4, the first double-year issue, makes no
>mention of the change, crowing instead over the unprecedented number of addi-
>tional photographs included. What the heck.
> Gordon Hogg
>
>Gordon E. Hogg
>Special Collections and Archives
>University of Kentucky Libraries
>Lexington, KY 40506-0039
>606-257-9421