Reid, P. R., MBE, MC,

THE LATTER DAYS AT COLDITZ.

Pan Books, London, 1972, reprint, paperback, 320pp, double page plan of castle, double page plan of French tunnel and single page of glider, photo pictorial wrappers with a still from the BBC TV series 'Colditz', continues the story started in 'The Colditz Story' of the WW2 German POW high security camp for officer escapers at Colditz castle in Saxony, from the time of the author's escape in November 1942 until the liberation of the castle by the Americans in 1945, a little rubbed and faintly creased at extrems., edges tanned, spine sunned, very good,

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Book number: 44244

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Reid, P. R., MBE, MC,

THE LATTER DAYS AT COLDITZ.

Pan Books, London, 1955, revised edn., 1st in imprint, paperback, 320pp, double page plan of castle and French Tunnel, and single page of glider, pictorial wrappers by 'Sax', continues the story started in The Colditz Story of the German POW high security camp for officer escapers at Colditz castle, from the time of the author's escape until the arrival of the Americans in 1945, toll and slant to spine, well rubbed at extrems., light overall creasing, edgesd tanned, spine relined, fair,

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Book number: 44427

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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Reid, P. R., MBE, MC,

THE LATTER DAYS AT COLDITZ.

Pan, London, 1957, reprint, paperback, 320pp, double page plan of castle, double page plan of French tunnel and single page of glider, pictorial wrappers by 'Sax', continues the story started in The Colditz Story of the German POW high security camp for officer escapers at Colditz castle, from the time of the author's escape until the arrival of the Americans in 1945, slight slant to spine, rubbed at extrems., edges well tanned, ink name inside upper wrapper and on half title, good,

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Book number: 44588

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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Reid, P. R., MBE, MC,

THE LATTER DAYS AT COLDITZ.

Pan, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, paperback, 320pp, double page plan of castle, double page plan of French tunnel and single page of glider, #GP37, pictorial upper wrapper by 'Sax', continues the story started in The Colditz Story of the German POW high security camp for officer escapers at Colditz castle, from the time of the author's escape until the arrival of the Americans in 1945, lightly rubbed at tips, tiny chip lower cnr. upper wrapper, pages tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 44617

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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Reid, P. R., MBE, MC,

THE LATTER DAYS AT COLDITZ.

Coronet, London, 1972, 7th imp., paperback, 320pp, 3 plans in text, tv tie-in, pictorial upper wrapper shows Robert Wagner in the BBC TV and Universal TV production, continues the story started in The Colditz Story of the German POW high security camp for officer escapers at Colditz castle, from the time of the author's escape until the arrival of the Americans in 1945, rubbed at extrems., faint creasing to wrappers, edges tanned and a little foxed, good,

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Book number: 45664

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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Richardson, Anthony,

WINGLESS VICTORY.

Pan, London, 1965, reset edn., paperback, 254pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., map in text, {ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, in May 1940 the Wing Commander Basil Embry was in command of 107 Squadron of Bristol Blenheims based at Wattisham in Suffolk. Recently heavily committed he had been posted to command RAF Station West Raynham from 28th May but on one last low-level bombing sortie to support the British Expeditionary Force in France on 27th May he was shot down. This is the account of his mission, capture, and escape from occupied France and return to England, edges tanned, near fine,

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Book number: 44589

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Richardson, Anthony,

WINGLESS VICTORY.

Pan, London, 1956, 1st in imprint, paperback, 254pp, 4pp half tone photo ills., map in text, {ii] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, in May 1940 the Wing Commander Basil Embry was in command of 107 Squadron of Bristol Blenheims based at Wattisham in Suffolk. Recently heavily committed he had been posted to command RAF Station West Raynham from 28th May but on one last low-level bombing sortie to support the British Expeditionary Force in France on 27th May he was shot down. This is the account of his mission, capture, and escape from occupied France and return to England, slight slant to spin e, a little rubbed at extrems. with slight loss at cnrs. upper wrapper, edges heavily tanned, good,

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Book number: 45522

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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Robertson, Henry Ord, DFM,

DANGEROUS LANDING - A First-hand story of Evasion.

William Kimber - Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough, 1989, 1st edn., 173pp, [iii] ads., 8pp half tone photo ills., maps and facsimle ills. in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, in December 1942 the author was wireless operator in a Halifax returning from a raid at Mannheim when it was attacked by a night fighter. Five crew members bailed out and three were captured but he and the navigator evaded capture and with the help of the French returned to Britain in March, 1943, slight ripple at fore-edge to a few leaves, edges tanned, dustwrapper: rubbed at tail of spine with small area of surface loss, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28179

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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Rollings, C,

PRISONER OF WAR - Voices from Captivity during the Second World War.

Ebury Press, London, ND (circa 2008), 2nd impr., vii, 392pp, half tone photo ills. in text, maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in ssilver at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, extracts from written accounts of life as a prisoner of war held by the Imperial War Mueum, and from interviews and the correspondence, diaries and unpublished manuscripts of many returned prisoners and/or their next of kin of those who didn't, from the Public Record Office and froim USAF Academy Library, setting out their experiences in sections describing: Capture, Transit and Interrogation, Imprisonmenty, Daily Survival, Fod, drink, clothes andn Tobacco, Work, Contact, Health, Education and Entertainment, Escape, Pimishment and Reprisals, Evacuation and Liberatioin, Repatriation, and After the War,. The latter section poignantly concludes with an account of how the British government withheld one third of an officer POW's pay, taxed them on it and then lost all record of what the returned POWs should have been paid, edges tanned, lightly bumped at tips, dustwrapper: price clipped, a little sunned at edges, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45549

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Romilly, Giles and Alexander, Michael,

HOSTAGES AT COLDITZ (first published as The Privileged Nightmare).

Sphere Books, London, 1973, 1st in imprint, paperback, 237pp, map in text, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the experiences of two 'prominente', prisoners with high level connections who were kept at Colditz castle during WW2, the nephew of Winston Churchill, Giles Romilly, and a relation of Field-Marshal Alexander, Michael Alexander, a little rubbed at extrems., diagonal creasing to lower corners of wrappers, edges stanned, good plus,

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Book number: 40572

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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Romilly, Giles and Alexander, Michael,

HOSTAGES AT COLDITZ.

Sphere Books, London, 1973, 1st in imprint, paperback, 237pp, map in text, pictorial wrappers, the experiences of two 'prominente', prisoners with high level connections who were kept at Colditz castle during WW2, the nephew of Winston Churchill, Giles Romilly, and a relation of Field-Marshal Alexander, Michael Alexander, sl. roll to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned and foxed, very good,

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Book number: 41866

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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Romilly, Giles and Alexander, Michael,

HOSTAGES AT COLDITZ (first published as The Privileged Nightmare).

Sphere Books, London, 1973, 1st in imprint, paperback, 237pp, map in text, pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the experiences of two 'prominente', prisoners with high level connections who were kept at Colditz castle during WW2, the nephew of Winston Churchill, Giles Romilly, and a relation of Field-Marshal Alexander, Michael Alexander, creases to upper wrapper, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 41867

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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Romilly, Giles and Alexander, Michael,

HOSTAGES AT COLDITZ (first published as The Privileged Nightmare).

Sphere Books, London, 1975, paperback, 237pp, map in text, [iii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the experiences of two 'prominente', prisoners with high level connections who were kept at Colditz castle during WW2, the nephew of Winston Churchill, Giles Romilly, and a relation of Field-Marshal Alexander, Michael Alexander, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, top edge of half title clipped, good plus,

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Book number: 41868

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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Romilly, Giles and Alexander, Michael,

HOSTAGES AT COLDITZ (first published as The Privileged Nightmare).

Sphere Books, London, 1973, 1st in imprint, paperback, 237pp, map in text, [ii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper (unattrib.), the experiences of two 'prominente', prisoners with high level connections who were kept at Colditz castle during WW2, the nephew of Winston Churchill, Giles Romilly, and a relation of Field-Marshal Alexander, Michael Alexander, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 42022

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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Sides, Hampton,

GHOST SOLDIERS - The Astonishing Story of One of Wartime's Greatest Escapes.

Time Warner, London, 2002, reprint, paperback, [x inc. maps], 431pp, half tone pictorial double title, [v] ads., photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the experiences of the prisoners-of-war of the Japanese 1942-5 in the camp at Cabanatuan, on the Philippine peninsular of Bataan, and of the rescue mounted by the US 6th Ranger Batallion in January, 1945, when it became apparent that in the face of advancing American forces the Japanese were killing POW's in other camps, sl. roll with light vertical creasing to spine, lightly rubbed at tipsa, small ownership label inside upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 38771

Catalogue: WW2 - POW's and Escape

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