MINNEY (R.J): Carve her Name with Pride. [The Story of Volette Szabo] , George Newnes, [1956]

8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 40 plates on 22, a full-page map and a full-page plan in the text, and endpaper maps, neat signatures on front free endpaper, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, covers very lightly browned at edges else a very good, clean copy in price-clipped d/w, the latter mildly creased and frayed at edges. The classic, well-illustrated account of SOE agent Violette Szabo, the only woman agent to be awarded the George Cross during WWII. This book forms the basis of Lewis Gilbert's classic feature film (1958) starring Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield and Jack Warner. Increasingly elusive in this condition. Enser, p.399; Foot, p.460.. (Book ref. 19519)  £94.00

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