First Comes Courage
Edition: reprint (1st?)
Publisher: Triangle Books
Published: Aug. 1943
Place of publication: American Book - Stratford Press, NYC, U.S.A.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 186261
Copyright date: 1942
Other titles: Formally published under the title "The Commandos."
Work titles: fiction_War Drama, Romantic Adventure
First sentence: IT WAS still early spring then and the time of the light night was not there.
Description: Dk. Cobalt blue "leatherette" cover with black horizontal stripes on part of the upper half of front cover and wrapping across the spine. Title is in a stippled white area covering the center stripes on the spine. It is in black.

"Leatherette" was a sturdy paper book fabric especially designed for use in book binding during the war, due to the acute shortage of cloth.
Notes: Has illus. drawing of a WWI soldier carrying a machine gun, in the field on the Title page.

First Comes Courage was based on 'The Commandos,' a novel by Elliot Arnold. It was made into a movie in 1943, starring:  Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond, Fritz Leiber, Erville Alderson and Directed by Dorothy Arzner
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