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Random House, 1953 - Destroyers (Warships) - 372 pages

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Pacific War: Tin-Can Class - TIME
FAR FROM THE CUSTOMARY SKIES (372 pp.)—Warren Eyster—Random House ($3.75). It is a novelist's duty to tell a story, but it is risky to retell one.
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JSTOR: Fiction of the Second World War
Far from the Customary Skies, by Warren Eyster, and The Deep Six, by Martin Dibner, both novels of 1953, are alike in their extended portrayal of the ...
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TitleFar from the customary skies
AuthorWarren Eyster
PublisherRandom House, 1953
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedSep 27, 2007
Length372 pages
SubjectsDestroyers (Warships)
World War, 1939-1945
  
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