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Issue Details: First known date: 1961... 1961 Island of Terrible Friends
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Notes

  • Strutton's book was one of the sources for Thomas Keneally's Season in Purgatory, and Keneally's use of similar material led to a controversy about plagiarism which resulted in an out-of-court settlement (for details see Pierce, Australian Melodramas, 15-17).
  • Dedication: To Jim Rickett: The most Terrible Friend of all.
  • In an Author's Note, Strutton wrote that this is a true story. In other sources he has also referred to the book as non-fiction. The book was written in the first person and has other qualities of fiction.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       W. W. Norton ,       1962 .
      Extent: 192p.
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Odhams Press ,       1962 .
      Extent: 192p.
      Description: illus., maps
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Magnum Books ,       1978 .
      Extent: 192p.
      ISBN: 0417033907
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,      :       Bantam Books ,       1980 .
      Alternative title: Commando Force 133
      Extent: 215p.
      Reprinted: 1981
      ISBN: 0553135813
Alternative title: Gli Amici Terribili : romanzo
Language: Italian
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Works about this Work

Row Over Book Similarities Ross Campbell , 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 June vol. 99 no. 5060 1977; (p. 20)
Row Over Book Similarities Ross Campbell , 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 June vol. 99 no. 5060 1977; (p. 20)
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