Author: HARGEST JAMES BRIGADIER
Title: Farewell Campo 12
Description: Whitcombe and Tombs. 1946, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. first New Zealand issue blue cloth, pages age browned, 207pp + frontis, pencil name and address to endpaper, dust jacket unclipped but has some heavy chipping or splits to corners and spine ends, NZ POW in Italy after capture by Rommel, and his escape attempts etc, Brigadier Hargest was captured at Sidi Aziz and escaped from a German POW camp near Florence, being the highest ranked British officer to escape in either World War (he also served at Gallipoli, Egypt and France in the First War) He travelled via Switzerland and occupied France back to Britain, and was killed in action in 1944. Very Good/Good.

Keywords: Anzac New Zealand World War Two Military Prisoner of War Italy Middle East


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