SEND PORT & PYJAMAS! [Author SIGNED copy.]

UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat,blue ink handwritten inscrptn,dedication+ date: 'Greg Woolgan With best wishes from Dan Raschen 24th June 1988 Shrivenham' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,yellow background with colour photographic pheasant illustrated upper panel of dw/dj,with red, black+yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain yellow cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w regional/Korean war zone map illustrated endpapers.UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,12- 246pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters+postscript,profuse contemporary b/w photographs (31+ frntis) and 8 b/w maps+diagrams interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w photographic frntis to it's verso,author SIGNED, dedicated+dated inscrptn to title page,contents list/table, photographs/maps/diagrams lists/tables,author's note and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book. "Send Port and Pyjamas!" was Dan Raschen's message when he was briefly detained in a 'MASH' in the Korean War.The bottle arrived,but without a corkscrew! As a young officer in the Royal Engineers,the author had volunteered for Korea because he hoped for some pheasant shooting.If his reasons for doing so were unusual,so this is an unusual war book.By the time he joined the First (and only) Commonwealth Division in August 1951 the war had moved down and up Korea twice,covering 1,000 miles,before settling once again much where it had started.When the Australians again advanced across the Imjin River,Dan was the Sapper officer who supported them.For a short while,due to an error in his map reading,he found he was leading the United Nations himself.When he became a junior member of the intelligence staff,the author appreciated that the requirements for his duties might be made to coincide with those of pheasant shooting. Many thousands of anti-personnel mines had been laid to deter the Chinese and North Koreans,but were soon to prove a menace to our own troops.Dan checked the location of the minefields whilst carrying a shotgun,pheasants proved plentiful,and it wasn't long before senior officers were requesting his services as a shooting guide.Dan was in Korea for half of the three year war,under circumstances as varied as were the nationalities supporting the United Nations campaign: booby traps with the Puerto Ricans were balanced by champagne with the French.This is a light-hearted autobiography,which concentrates on the happier aspects of soldiering.The undertones,however,are serious,and these reminiscences make an interesting and wide ranging contribution to the history of the time. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.