Author: Vincent, Adrian,
Title: THE LONG ROAD HOME.
Description: New English Library, London, 1974, 1st in imprint, paperback, 173pp, [iii] ads., wraparound pictorial wrappers (unattrib), "...in the early hours of a cold May morning in 1940 a battalion of soldiers arrived at Dover. They were the 1st battalion of the Queen Victoria's Rifles. Five days later nearly all of them were either dead, wounded or taken prisoner", so opens this account of the author's WW2 service as a member of that batallion, sent as reinforcements to the soon to be besieged Calais. The author was captured and endured five years captivity as a POW before being liberated by the Americans in 1945, slant tio vertically creased spine, a little rubbed at extrems., light stain to upper w3rappers a little creased, edge, edges tanned, good plus,

Keywords: wraparound pictorial wrappers (unattrib), a member of Queen Victoria's Rifles sent as reinforcements to the soon to be besieged Calais in May, 1940, the author was captured and endured five years captivity as a POW before being liberated by the Americans


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