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 Sides, Hampton,,, GHOST SOLDIERS.
Sides, Hampton,,
GHOST SOLDIERS.
Little, Brown and Co., London, 2001, 1st edn., paperback original, 342pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approxxx.), photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the experiences of the American POW's of Cabanatuan, who surrendered to the Japanese in April 1942 in the Bataan Peninsular of the Philippines and endured years of deprivation, and of the rescue mission by volunteers from the 6th Ranger battalion led by Lt. Col. Henry Mucci, who with Filipino guerrillas went behind enemy Japanese lines to successfully rescue the prisoners, edges tanned, corners of wrapper very slightly inclined to curl, near fine,
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Book number: 41090
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Simmons, Kenneth W.,
KRIEGIE - Prisoner of War.
Hillman Periodicals Inc., New York, 1960, 1st in imprint, paperback, 192pp, piictorial wrappers, the author Kenneth W. Simmons was an officer of 567 Bombardment Squadron flying B-24 Liberators from Hethel airfield south-west of Norwich. The author has written a most detailed description of the briefing for a mission to bomb Mainz, where they are told elements of the German army facing General Patton were being reformed and rearmed. The author, from Texas, was first lieutenant bombardier of Betsy II, commanded by pilot Gene Coletti from New York, with co-pilot Tim Conway from Ohio. The fourth officer was Terrell Hollis, the navigator, from Mississippi. The remainder of the crew were nose gunner Norman Alston, engineer Robert Bulla, radio operator Robert Wheatley, waist gunners John Mather and Poltra and tail gunner Jim Falla.After a nine minute bombing run the aircraft was hit several times by flak, the crew bailed out and the author relates his capture, interrogation and time in captivity as a prisoner of war, a kriegie, spine sunned, price label and short incision upper wrapper, lightly rubbed at extrems.edges tanned, lacks title page and pubishing data, bookseller stamp and prices inside upper wrapper, binding glue brittle, very good,
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Book number: 45673
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Keywords: war ww2 germany pow liberator 8th air force hethel 567th bombardment squadron 389th bomb group mainz patton

 Thomas, W. B., DSO, MC,, DARE TO BE FREE.
Thomas, W. B., DSO, MC,
DARE TO BE FREE.
Pan, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, paperback, 253pp, 3 plans in text, [iii] ads., #328, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, the author was a yound subaltern of the New Zealand 23rd Infantry Battalion in Crete when the German airborne invasion started and he relates the progress of the invasion and the New Zealand resistance to it. In the battle for Galatas he was wounded by grenade shrapnel and by an explosive bullet in the left thigh. He was captured and transferred as a prisoner of war to Greece where he was hospitalised for some months and was lucky to keep his leg. Once he was fit enough he started planning to escape and after three unsuccessful attempts he managed to reach the Mount Athos monasteries where he evaded capture for a year before finally reaching Turkey, lightly rubbed at extrems., light overall soiling, edges tanned, very good,
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Keywords: war ww2 land crete greece pow escape

 Vincent, Adrian,, THE LONG ROAD HOME.
Vincent, Adrian,
THE LONG ROAD HOME.
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, very sl. slant to spine, lightly rubbed at tips, sl. ripple to book, edges tanned, very good,
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Book number: 35173
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Vincent, Adrian,
THE LONG ROAD HOME.
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,
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Book number: 45678
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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

 Warner, Lavinia and Sandilands, John,, WOMEN BEYOND THE WIRE - A Story of Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45.
Warner, Lavinia and Sandilands, John,
WOMEN BEYOND THE WIRE - A Story of Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45.
Michael Joseph, London, 1982, 1st edn., xii inc. single page map, 289pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., facsimiles in text, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the experiences of the women internees of the Japanese in Sumatra, most of whom were refugees from the last-minute evacuation of Singapore and fewer than half of whom survived in the jungle camps to the end of WW2, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, sunned at spine, faint creasing upper edge, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,
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Book number: 34767
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Keywords: war ww2 singapore malaya sumatra jungle pow japanese

 Warner, Lavinia and Sandilands, John,, WOMEN BEYOND THE WIRE.
Warner, Lavinia and Sandilands, John,
WOMEN BEYOND THE WIRE.
Hamlyn, London, 1983, 1st in imprint, paperback, [xiv], 289pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., map and facsimile documents in text, pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the experiences of the women internees of the Japanese in Sumatra, most of whom were refugees from the last-minute evacuation of Singapore and fewer than half of whom survived in the jungle camps to the end of WW2, slight roll and slant to vertically creased spine, a little rubbed at extrems., creasing to wrappers and cnrs. inclined to curl, edges tanned, ink scribble inside upper wrapper, good reading copy,
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Book number: 40066
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Keywords: war ww2 singapore malaya sumatra jungle pow japanese internment vf45

 Wentzel, Fritz,, SINGLE OR RETURN?.
Wentzel, Fritz,
SINGLE OR RETURN?.
William Kimber, London, 1954, 1st edn., 172pp, half tone frontis portrait, 4pp half tone photo ills., [iv] ads., very dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib.), the author knew the subject of this story, Luftwaffe pilot Lt. Franz von Werra, as one of his fellow POW's and here relates the account of the only German pow to escape from the West and reach home, 'the one that got away', small rub upper edge lower board, upper edge a little dusty, all edges sl. foxed, free endpapers tanned and ink name/date front free endpaper, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems. with sl. loss at head of spine and upper tips, short closed tear upper edge upper panel, spine quite heavily sunned, internally repaired, very good plus in a good plus dustwrapper,
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Book number: 33616
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Keywords: war ww2 luftwaffe von werra bob hurricane canada usa germany

 Wentzel, Fritz,, SINGLE OR RETURN?.
Wentzel, Fritz,
SINGLE OR RETURN?.
New English Library, London, 1975, 1st in imprint, paperback, 160pp, pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the author knew the subject of this story, Luftwaffe pilot Lt. Franz von Werra, as one of his fellow POW's and here relates the account of the only German pow to escape from the West and reach home, 'the one that got away', slight slant to spine, rubbed at extrems., creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, good,
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Book number: 41920
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Keywords: war ww2 luftwaffe von werra bob hurricane canada usa germany

 Wentzel, Fritz,, SINGLE OR RETURN?.
Wentzel, Fritz,
SINGLE OR RETURN?.
New English Library, London, 1975, 1st in imprint, paperback, 160pp, pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the author knew the subject of this story, Luftwaffe pilot Lt. Franz von Werra, as one of his fellow POW's and here relates the account of the only German pow to escape from the West and reach home, 'the one that got away', slight slant to spine, rubbed at extrems., creasing to wrappers, edges tanned, good,
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Book number: 41921
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 Whitecross, Roy H.,, SLAVES OF THE SUN OF HEAVEN.
Whitecross, Roy H.,
SLAVES OF THE SUN OF HEAVEN.
Corgi, London, 1973, reprint, paperback, 255pp, maps in text, [i] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, the author served as a Private in the 8th Division, Australian Imperial Force, volunteering in 1941 and serving in Malaya until pushed back to Singapore and capture by the Japanese. His time as prisoner-of-war was spent first at Changi, then at Tavoy in Burma and on the Burma-Thailand railroad and then back to Changi in Singapore, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, near fine,
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Book number: 44249
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Keywords: war ww2 aif pow malaya burma thailand indo-china japan railroad japanese

 
Williams, Herbert,
COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE.
Quartet, London, 1976, 1st edn., paperback original, [viii], 131pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [v] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, in March 1945 67 German officers escaped through a tunnel from a prisoner-of-war camp, Camp 198, near Bridgend in Glamorgan, the biggest break-out by POWs from a British camp in WW2. The author relates how the escape was effected and what happened in the eventful week that all 67 were recaptured, edges tanned, near fine,
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Keywords: war ww2 pow wales

 Williams, Eric,, THE ESCAPERS.
Williams, Eric,
THE ESCAPERS.
Fontana, London, 1973, 6th imp., paperback, 443pp, in text diagrams, [v] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, eighteen escape stories from history, including John Garard who climbed from the Tower of London in 1597, Casanova who fled across the roofs of Venice in 1756, Winston Churchill in the Boer war, and three from WW1 and seven from WW2, sl. roll to spine with faint vertical creasing, lightly rubbed at extrems. and light creasing upper wrapper, edges tanned, good plus,
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Book number: 35413
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Keywords: war ww1 ww2 pow escape

 Williams, Eric,, GREAT ESCAPE STORIES.
Williams, Eric,
GREAT ESCAPE STORIES.
Peacock, Harmonndsworth, 1967, reprint, paperback, 256pp, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a collection of escape stories of twelve different men and women who were involved in the Second World War, including André Devigny's escape by rope over the roof of Montluc military prison, Lt. Davis James' escape from a naval internment camp near Bremen disguised as a Bulgarian naval officer and Airey Neave's escape from Colditz Castle dressed in a home-made oberleutnant's uniform, rubbed at exterms., wrappers a little soiled edges tanned, ink name half title, good,
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Book number: 44598
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Keywords: war ww2 pow escape

 Williams, Eric,, THE TUNNEL.
Williams, Eric,
THE TUNNEL.
Fontana Books, London, 1971, 7th imp., paperback, 251pp, plan in text, [v] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the author describes various escape attempts prior to the successful escape from Stag Luft III described in 'The Wooden Horse', again writing about true events in a fictional style with himself represented by the character 'Peter Howard' he covers the period 1942-3 and the camps Dulag Luft and Oflag XXIB, as well as an account of the last minutes of the mission on which he crashed, sl. roll and light vertical creasing to spine, a little rubbed at extrems. with light creasing at cnrs., good plus,
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Book number: 41926
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Keywords: ww2 war raf bomber pow escape dulag luft oflag xxib

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