A Book for all Reasons
James, Lieutenant David, MBE, DSC, RNVR A PRISONER'S PROGRESS , William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1947,1st edn., 3 plans in text, map and plan at front endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, contains more comprehensive acknowledgements in the preface than in later editions, the author commanded MGB 79, one of the 8th MGB flotilla under the command of Lt. Cdr. Hichens at Felixstowe (and later re-edited Hichens 'We Fought them in Gunboats'). In February 1943 off the Hook of Holland they came under attack and MGB 79 was soon ablaze. The author was taken prisoner by a German trawler and transferred to the Naval POW camp at Marlag. He relates camp life, escape and recapture in Lubeck and finally successful escape to the Baltic coast again and a Finnish ship to Stockholm and home, slightly cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, faint foxing to edges and prelims., dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., slight darkening to spine and some faint fox marks, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper, (Book ref. 39555) £24.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, A Book for all Reasons , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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