Guss, David M.,

THE 21 ESCAPES OF LT. ALASTAIR CRAM.

Macmillan, London, 2018, 1st edn., [xvi], 432pp, 8pp photo ills., 2 double page maps, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured endpapers, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the amazing account of the WW2 experiences of Lt. Alastair Cram, captured in North Africa in November 1941 when serving with the Royal Artillery, beginning a long odyssey of incarceration and escapes from POW camps and German prisons, the final successful one being in April 1945 from Nordhausen in Germany, but along the way teaming up with the legendary founder of the SAS David Stirlling with whom he and others carried out the mass escapr from the Italian Coldittz, the Fortress 'Gavi', overall escapingn 21 times, lightly rubbed at head of spine, edges tanned, coloured endpapers a little rubbed, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Hardie, Dr. Robert,

THE BURMA-SIAM RAILWAY - The secret diary of Dr. Robert Hardie 1942-45.

Imperial War Museum, London, ND (copyright 1983), 1st edn., 181pp, coloured and half tone ills. by the author and facsimile posters in text, [x] Biographical Index, coloured maps at endpapers, large format (10 x 7 inches approx.), blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the diary of a medical officer serving with the Federated Malay States Volunteer Force, captured after the fall of Singpaore he spent three years as a POW of the Japanese trying to attend to the medical needs of those working on the Burma-Siam railway, light sunning to lower edges of boards, dustwrapper: faint marks to edges on reverse, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38089

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Hastain, Ronald (ills, Ronald Searle),

WHITE COOLIE.

Corgi, London, 1959, 3rd imp., paperback, 318pp, frontis, title and in text ills. by Robert Searle, [ii] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper, the experiences of a POW after the fall of Singapore, a warrant officer with an unnamed battalion arrives on a troopship at Singpaore after the Japanese invasion of Malaya. They disembark justin time to take part in the defence of the island although by this time there is little evidence of any RAF defence. The account relates the use of observation balloon by the Japanese as an aid to their artillery. After the ceasefire and surrender the POWs gather at Changi barracks and the author's battalion is sent to help build the Bangcok to Siam railway, moving camp as the stages of the railway are completed. Details of the accommodation, rations and meals are related in some detail as are the consequences of the poor diet leading to the tropical diseases of beri-beri and malaria as well as dysentry and cholera. On completion of the railway the survivors are moved back to Singapore and then by ship to Osaka in Japan and a POW camp for work in an adjacent factory. He describes the morale of the Japanese population which at this stage of the war seems low, the Japanese factory workers being less than diligent. He winesses a number of Allied air raids as well as the first atom bomb explosion, followed shortly afterwards by the Japanese surrender and his release and liberation by US forces and then repatriation to UK, first by air to Okinawa and Manilla and then by sea to Canada, includes loosely inserted map of camps, a little rubbed at extrems., slight slant to spine, faint creasing, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 44409

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Jones, Francis S.,

THE DOUBLE DUTCHMAN.

Corgi, London, 1978, 1st in imprint, paperback, 189pp inc, 1pp map, [ii] ads., wraparound pictorial wrappers, account of the escapes of New Zealand Private Roy Natusch in WW2, in 1943 he was part of a POW work party billeted at Gaas in Austria, close to the Hungarian border, when with colleagues he escaped and assumed various Dutch officer identities as he travelled across Hungary attempting to reach the Yugoslav partisans, edges tanned, near fine,

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Book number: 44228

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Jones, Francis S.,

ESCAPE TO NOWHERE.

Triad / Mayflower, London, 1977, 1st in imprint, paperback, 236pp, maps in text, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), an army private, captured in Greece 1941, and his attempts at escape he travels through Italy and Germany, where his final escape brings him within reach of the liberating American troops, light creasing and sunning to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41757

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Jones, Francis S.,

ESCAPE TO NOWHERE.

Triad / Mayflower, London, 1977, 1st in imprint, paperback, 236pp, maps in text, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), an army private, captured in Greece 1941, and his attempts at escape he travels through Italy and Germany, where his final escape brings him within reach of the liberating American troops, light vertical creasing at spine, a little rubbed at extrems., spine sl. sunned, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41981

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Kee, Robert,

A CROWD IS NOT COMPANY.

Triad/Panther, London, 1984, 1st in imprint, paperback, 304pp, wraparound pictorial cover art by Kevin Tweddell, now a well known journalist and television reporter, the author was shot down over Holland and became a POW for over three years, he relates an account of his capture and initial interrogation, and presents numerous sketches of life as a prisoner of war, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 36234

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Lias, Godfrey,

I SURVIVED.

Evans Brothers, London, 1954, reprint before first publication, 224pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the author was a young Austrian merdical student who gained a commission into the German Army, captured by the Russians at Stalingrad, escaped from POW camp and enlisted in the Russian Army in an attempt to get home, getting as far as Berlin. Involved in a brawl he was arrested, taken back to Russia to various prison and slave camps until his final release and return to Austria, sl. cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed, torn and heavily repaired, overall soiling, very good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 35707

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Lias, Godfrey,

I SURVIVED.

Evans Brothers, London, 1954, reprint before first publication, 224pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, the author was a young Austrian merdical student who gained a commission into the German Army, captured by the Russians at Stalingrad, escaped from POW camp and enlisted in the Russian Army in an attempt to get home, getting as far as Berlin. Involved in a brawl he was arrested, taken back to Russia to various prison and slave camps until his final release and return to Austria, a little rubbed at extrems., gillding dull, ckloth a little marked, edges tanned with a few fox maarks, dustwrapper: rubbed with sligght loss at spine ends and cnrs., flaking at folds, light overall soiling, repaired to reverse, good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39560

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Martin, John,

A RAID OVER BERLIN.

Parthian, Cardigan, 2018, paperback original, trade paperback, 159pp inc. 6pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial upper wrapper, the author volunteered for the Royal Air Force as a gtrainee wireless operator in 1941 at the3 age of nineteen. On completion of his training he was posted to RAF Kermington in Lincolnshire on Lancasters and on his third operational mission his plane was brought down over Germany.Thrown clear of the disintegrating Lancaster he parachuted into Germany, to face interrogation and the prospect of being shot by the Gestapo before months of hardship as a Prisoner of War before being liberated by Bfritish troops in the Spring of 1945, very lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, near fine,

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Book number: 45464

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McNally, Michael (ills. by Peter Dennis),

COLDITZ : OFLAG IV-C.

Osprey, Oxford, 2010, paperback, 64pp, maps, coloured and half tone ills. in text, large slim format (9.5 x 7 inches approx.), pictorial montage wrappers, an examination of the 15th Century castle at Colditz, remembered not because of its early history but because of its use as a prisoner-of-war camp known as Oflag IV-C during WW2, supposedly escape-proof but which proved to be anything but due to the ingenuity of the prisoners sent there, describing the methods of detention and the ways they were bypassed, fine,

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Book number: 41606

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Neave, Airey,

SATURDAY AT MI9.

Hodder, London, 1971, paperback, 327pp, maps in text, [i] ad., pictorial montage upper wrapper, the author was one of the first successful escapers from Colditz Castle who, on his return to Britain, became chief organiser at MI9, codename 'Saturday', of the escape lines (O'Leary and Comet) in France which assisted 3,000 allied airmen, half American, to safety; of Operation Marathon to rescue the airmen shot down after the Normandy Invasion; and also covers the rescue of many of the 1st Airborne Division after Arnhem, vertically creased spine, a little rubbed and creased at extrems., edges tanned, light overall soiling, lacks lower half of page 7/8 (blank so no loss of text), reading copy,

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Book number: 45214

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Neave, Airey,

THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS.

Coronet Books, London, 1973, paperback, 189pp, double page map and three plans, pictorial upper wrapper, foreword by Lord Justice Birkett: captured at Calais in 1940 the author relates his three escapes, the final being a successful from Colditz castle, and on his return to UK his subsequent service with MI9 assisting thr French Resistance in rescuing and repatriating Allied airmen, of his involvement with Operation Pegasus, the evacuation of the stranded troops at Arnhem, and immediately after the war his work with at the War Crimes Trials at Nuremburg, rubbed at extrems., vertical crease to spine, light creasing to wrappers, edges browned and a little foxed, good plus,

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Book number: 41833

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Neave, Airey,

THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS.

Coronet Books, London, 1972, paperback, 189pp, double page map and three plans, pictorial upper wrapper, foreword by Lord Justice Birkett: captured at Calais in 1940 the author relates his three escapes, the final being a successful from Colditz castle, and on his return to UK his subsequent service with MI9 assisting thr French Resistance in rescuing and repatriating Allied airmen, of his involvement with Operation Pegasus, the evacuation of the stranded troops at Arnhem, and immediately after the war his work with at the War Crimes Trials at Nuremburg, a little rubbed at extrems., some creasing to lower wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41834

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Neave, Airey,

THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS.

Pan Books, London, 1955, 2nd imp., paperback, 221pp, double page map and three plans in text, [iii] ads., #329, pictorial upper wrapper, foreword by Lord Justice Birkett: captured at Calais in 1940 the author relates his three escapes, the final being a successful from Colditz castle, and on his return to UK his subsequent service with MI9 assisting thr French Resistance in rescuing and repatriating Allied airmen, of his involvement with Operation Pegasus, the evacuation of the stranded troops at Arnhem, and immediately after the war his work with at the War Crimes Trials at Nuremburg, roll and wrinkling to spine, creasing to wrappers, rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 42008

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