Author: WARRACK Graeme
Title: Travel by Dark After Arnhem. Foreword by HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY; SIGNED BY ARNHEM VETERAN JOHN WADDY
Description: Harvill,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly rubbed and sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. SIGNED BY COLONEL JOHN WADDY ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. At Arnhem, Major John Waddy commanded B Coy 156 Bn Parachute Battalion. Wounded first at Johanna Hoeve Woods and subsequently twice more at a Main Dressing Station, he was taken prisoner and ended the war at Stalag VIIA where was liberated by the Americans in the Spring of 1945. Warrack was ADMS of 1 Airborne at Arnhem. After the battle he spent a fortnight in a cupboard in order to evade capture and eventually made he way back across the Rhine with help of the Dutch resistance. Fragmentary dustwrapper loosely inserted. Enser, p.152.

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