Author: FIELDING Xan
Title: Hide and Seek. The Story of a War-Time Agent. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Secker & Warburg,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8 and endpaper maps in red; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwapper, the latter chipped at head and tail. Dustwrapper artwork by Anthony Baynes. Arguably the scarcest of all the SOE personal memoirs. Fielding (1918-1991) was one of the first SOE agents (with Paddy Leigh Fermor and Dick Barnes) to be landed in Crete where he spent two years or so in a precarious game of hide and seek with the occupying Germans. Arrested in France later in the war, he was saved from execution by the Polish SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek. In post-war years a close friend of Lawrence Durrell, Fielding developed a career as writer and translator, achieving acclaim for his translation of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.192.

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, espionage, crete, soe, special operations executive, fielding, xan fielding


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