Author: Broom, Barbara (complied by),
Title: GEOFFREY BROOM'S WAR - Letters and P.O.W. Diaries.
Description: The Pentland Press, Bishop Auckland, 1993, 1st edn., 238pp, half tone photo frontis portrait, 6 pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper by Geoff Hobbs, the experiences of Geoffrey Broom during WW2 related through his letters and diaries. Geoffrey Broom joined the Royal Naval Patrol Service in 1940, trained as a signaller and from early in 1941 served in HMT Norse, a Grimsby trawler requisitioned in 1939 and converted for minesweeping, Norse was posted to the Eastern Mediterranean. Two years later Norse's crew waited replacement and as a spare signaller he was attached to a unit sent to the island of Leros, was captured by the Germans and served the remainder of the war in Stalag XIA in Germany (Marlag und Milag Nord) as a POW, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips with tiny repaired nick at head of spine, near fine in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 navy minesweeping hmt norse hms canopus alexandria leros aegean pow marlag und milag nord leros


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