Author: Robertson, Henry Ord, DFM,
Title: DANGEROUS LANDING - A First-hand story of Evasion.
Description: William Kimber - Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough, 1989, 1st edn., 173pp, [iii] ads., 8pp half tone photo ills., maps and facsimle ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, in December 1942 the author was wireless operator in a Halifax returning from a raid at Mannheim when it was attacked by a night fighter. Five crew members bailed out and three were captured but he and the navigator evaded capture and with the help of the French returned to Britain in March, 1943, slight ripple at fore-edge to a few leaves, edges tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed at tail of spine with small area of surface loss, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 pow escape evasion resistance


See more books from our catalog: WW2 - POW's and Escape