de Wiart, Lieut-General Sir Adrian Carton, VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO,
HAPPY ODYSSEY.
Jonathan Cape, London, 1950, 1st edn., 287pp, [i] blank, , half tone photo frontis port., red cloth lettered in silver at spine, upper edge coloured, plain lettered dustwrapper, Belgian born with a childhood in Egypt and schooling and university in England, these are the memoirs of a soldier who served with the Imperial Light Horse in the Boer War, the Dragoon Guards and 8th North Staffordshires in WW1 and commanded the Central Norwegian Expeditionary Force in 1940. Taken prisoner by the Italians after crashing while flying to Jugoslavia a year later he escaped, was recaptured and released to negotiate an armistice, and became Churchill's personal representative to Chiang Kai-shek, edges tanned, small ownership label and signature top cnr. front free endpaper, dustwrapper: price clipped, a little rubbed with very sl. loss at tips, repaired tear to head of spine, old sello stain to reverse, spine darkened, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,
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