Skip to content

Search Results: Military - POWs & Escapers from Capricorn Books

You searched for:
  • Subject: Military - POWs & Escapers from Capricorn Books
Results 1 - 20 of 23
'AND THE DAWN CAME UP LIKE THUNDER'.

'AND THE DAWN CAME UP LIKE THUNDER'.

by Rawlings, Leo. With supporting account by Bill Duncan. Foreword by Lord Mountbatten of Burma.

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good-
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780903488006
ISBN 10
0903488000
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
England: Rawlings, Chapman, 1972. 160 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). B&w map on front pastedown, profusely illusrated throughout with 119 b&w reproductions of the author/artist's sketches of his war experiences, b&w photographs. "Leo Rawlings was captured at the fall of Singapore, spending three and a half years as a prisoner of war where he made over one hundred eye witness paintings of conditions experienced." Contents: Introduction; Prelude to War; The Malayan Campaign; Slim River; The Retreat Continues; The Last Ditch - Fall of Singapore; The Beginning of the Long Wait - The Trek Up Country; The Railway Camps; Bridge Building, The Kwai; Medical - Dysentry, Cholera, Vitamin Deficiency and its effects, Medical Conditions, Ulcers, Other Tropical Diseases; Back to Singapore - Japanese Atrocities; Liberation; Artist's Note; Introducing Bill Duncan - His valuable contribution to this document. 1" square of remains of sticker and light sticker removal staining at top of… Read More
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA
ARMY SERVICE RECORDS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.  PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE READERS' GUIDE NO 19.  3RD...

ARMY SERVICE RECORDS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE READERS' GUIDE NO 19. 3RD EXPANDED EDITION.

by Spencer, William.

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
3rd, Expanded Edition.
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9781903365236
ISBN 10
1903365236
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$27.20
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Kew, Surrey: PRO Publications, 2001. 112 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). "This third expanded edition of the bestselling 'Army Service Records of the First World War' brings you the most up-to-date information on the records relating to service in the British and Indian Armies between 1914 and 1918. It covers officers, other ranks, and nurses, explaining in detail what you can find from their records. It also explores documents held at the PRO and elsewhere on battles, medals, casualties, prisoners of war, and the Dominion forces. Through case studies, examples and illustrations, William Spencer brings to life the remarkable records of the Great War and the people they concern - and provides an invaluable aid to your research." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - spine flat and uncreased.. 3rd, Expanded Edition.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.
Item Price
A$27.20
A$7.75 shipping to USA
BAIL-OUT!  POW, 1944-1945.

BAIL-OUT! POW, 1944-1945.

by TenHaken, Mel.

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Near Fine
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9780897451291
ISBN 10
0897451295
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1990. 144 pp, 8vo (8 15/16" H). B&w photographs, map. "Mel TenHaken survived a plane crash while training to be a World War II radio-operator-gunner; he parachuted from a disabled bomber after hitting a German target; and he spent five months as a prisoner of war in Germany, then later was liberated by coarse and reckless Russian conquerors." These are his reminiscences of his experiences as a POW. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very minor edgewear.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA
BARBED WIRE BALLADS.

BARBED WIRE BALLADS.

by Melville, Tom (Scotty), Lieut.

  • Used
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Good-
Edition
Second Printing
Binding
Paperback
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$31.08
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Regina : School Aids and Text Book Publishing Co., 1945. 62 pp, 8" H. Green patterned endpapers, 2 b&w photographs, drawing. These ballads were written by an officer of the South Saskatchewan Regiment while in a German POW camp (Oflag VII/B) during WWII. Interior - two small splits in paper of front hinge, light browning to edges of endpapers, light browning to margins of pages, tiny crease and faint bump at top corner of pages, staples are rusty very small foxing mark on edge of pages 27 to 34. Exterior - edges of text block are browned, tiny scuff on top of text block, light to moderate edge wear on covers and spine, some small and tiny light stains on covers, a few small creases on covers.. Second Printing. Stapled in Wraps. Good-.
Item Price
A$31.08
A$7.75 shipping to USA
THE BROKEN SWASTIKA.

THE BROKEN SWASTIKA.

by Trebich, Willy, with Edmund Swinglehurst.

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780850521009
ISBN 10
0850521009
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$31.08
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
London: Leo Cooper, 1973. 184 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs. "Few men can lay claim to a more extraordinary military career than Willy Trebich. At the outbreak of the Second World War he belonged to both the HAC (Honourable Artillery Company) and to the Hilter Youth. Nurtured in the international society of the Cote d'Azur, in 1939 he was working as a stockbroker in the City. To please his boss he had joined the HAC but his heart was with the Hitler Jugend with whom he spent every moment of his holidays. The reader will discover by what twists of fate it fell out that Willy eventually served in the RHA (Royal Horse Artillery) and not in the German Army. The decision was made but the crisis was far from over. He was captured in North Africa by his former Nazi friends. He escaped and was recaptured no less than six times - eventually being sent to the concentration camp at Regensburg - but each time he knew that he was escaping as much from his fellow prisoners as from the enemy.… Read More
Item Price
A$31.08
A$7.75 shipping to USA
CAMERA IN COLDITZ.

CAMERA IN COLDITZ.

by Baybutt, Ron.

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780340248232
ISBN 10
0340248238
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$34.97
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. 128 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "Colditz Castle is the Eiger North Wall of World War Two POW camps. It was the ultimate fortress for the bravest and the best, for the most ingenious, most determined and daredevil spirits who had already effected an exit from lesser establishments of the Third Reich. From Colditz, it was boasted, there could be no escape. The stories of those Allied officers who took up the challenge are now well known. But here for the first time a book gathers together a collection of the authentic official German photographs, actually taken on the spot within hours of various foiled escape attempts being discovered. Sometimes they are pictures of the stable door after the horse has fled successfully over the distant border. They were taken between the years 1941 and 1944 by Johannes Lange, a local Colditz town photographer of weddings and christenings, deputed by the Third Reich to record… Read More
Item Price
A$34.97
A$7.75 shipping to USA
CANADIANS BEHIND ENEMY LINES, 1939-1945.

CANADIANS BEHIND ENEMY LINES, 1939-1945.

by Maclaren, Roy.

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Good+
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780774801478
ISBN 10
0774801476
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1981. 330 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w illustrations. "During the Second World War, Canadians found themselves behind enemy lines in Europe and Asia. Many were airmen who had been shot down, but almost one hundred Canadians volunteered to go on hazardous assignments amidst the enemy. Two secret British services requested Canadian volunteers who could pass as natives in an occupied country, and who were ready to risk their lives in assisting local resistance groups in sabotage and ambush or in smuggling Allied airmen out of occupied Europe and Asia. Operating in disguise in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Burma, Malaya, and Sarawak, these Canadians helped to make the brutal and unrelenting warfare of the underground a potent weapon in the Allied arsenal. Their unique contribution to ultimate victory has seldom been recognized." Light edgewear to boards, light rubbing, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, spine is light cocked, front… Read More
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA
THE DEVIL'S GRIN:  WHY AND HOW THE JAPANESE MILITARY IMPRISONED DUTCH CIVILIANS LIVING IN THE...
More Photos

THE DEVIL'S GRIN: WHY AND HOW THE JAPANESE MILITARY IMPRISONED DUTCH CIVILIANS LIVING IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES DURING THE 1941-1945 PACIFIC WAR.

by Harting, Toni. Signed.

  • Used
  • very good
  • Paperback
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Paperback
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$62.16
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Toronto: Self-published, 2013. 186 pp, 9" H. Signed on title page: "Toni Harting / 31 May (?) 13". B&w photographs, map. "(A)ims to provide insight into, and information about, the mentality, philosophy, and motivation of the Japanese people, especially the Japanese military, before and during the 1941-1945 war in the Pacific, as well as their system of civilian concentration camps in the Dutch East Indies colony in Southeast Asia. The book also portrays the story of a young Dutch teenage boy developing into an eighteen-year-old man under brutal circumstances as a civilian prisoner of war in Japanese concentration camps in the Dutch East Indies. The story is formatted not as a conventional detailed memoir but as an information-presenting, journalistic report inspired by, and to a large extent based on, my own experiences, observations, and thoughts as a civilian prisoner of war." Interior - light soft crease to fore-edge of first page, otherwise clean and tight with no… Read More
Item Price
A$62.16
A$7.75 shipping to USA
DIE LIKE THE CARP!  THE STORY OF THE GREATEST PRISON ESCAPE EVER ...

DIE LIKE THE CARP! THE STORY OF THE GREATEST PRISON ESCAPE EVER ...

by Gordon, Harry.

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
Reprint
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780726932434
ISBN 10
0726932434
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$19.43
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Stanmore, New South Wales : Cassell Australia, 1979. 240 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). Map/plan endpapers, b&w photographs. "In the early morning of 5 August 1944, outside the little Australian township of Cowra, the greatest prison break in world history took place. More than 1100 Japanese prisoners of war took part, and 231 of them were killed; 334 of them actually escaped, and were captured over the ensuing nine days by posses of police, soldiers and local farmers. During the outbreak and the events which followed, four Australian soldiers were killed and another four were wounded. The whole bizarre episode was cloaked in secrecy at the time, and for many years afterwards." Minor browning to pages, light browning to edges of textblock, light edgewear to boards. Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, small tear, archivally taped, at top of rear hinge, very light rubbing.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
Item Price
A$19.43
A$7.75 shipping to USA
DOUGLAS BADER: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY WORLD WAR II FIGHTER PILOT.

DOUGLAS BADER: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY WORLD WAR II FIGHTER PILOT.

by Turner, John Fraynd.

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9781853105463
ISBN 10
1853105465
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1995. 252 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. "Based on extensive interviews which the author had with Douglas Bader during the last thirteen years of his life, it tells the full story from his childhood to his work with the disabled in later life. After a flying accident in which he lost his legs, Douglas Bader was invalided out of the RAF. At the outbreak of war in 1939 he was recalled to the RAF and returned to flying. He fought in the Battle of Britain and later in nearly one hundred offensive fighter patrols. Follow-ing a mid-air collision he was captured and became a prisoner-of-war and was imprisoned in Colditz. The story of his war-time activities, both in the air and as a POW , is told in some detail and makes fascinating reading. These activities helped him to achieve celebrity status and in later life much of his time was given to promoting causes for the disabled." Large gift inscription on free front endpaper, very light wrinkling at… Read More
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA
DOUGLAS BADER: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY WORLD WAR II FIGHTER PILOT.

DOUGLAS BADER: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY WORLD WAR II FIGHTER PILOT.

by Turner, John Fraynd.

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good+
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9781853105463
ISBN 10
1853105465
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$27.20
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1995. 252 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. "Based on extensive interviews which the author had with Douglas Bader during the last thirteen years of his life, it tells the full story from his childhood to his work with the disabled in later life. After a flying accident in which he lost his legs, Douglas Bader was invalided out of the RAF. At the outbreak of war in 1939 he was recalled to the RAF and returned to flying. He fought in the Battle of Britain and later in nearly one hundred offensive fighter patrols. Follow-ing a mid-air collision he was captured and became a prisoner-of-war and was imprisoned in Colditz. The story of his war-time activities, both in the air and as a POW , is told in some detail and makes fascinating reading. These activities helped him to achieve celebrity status and in later life much of his time was given to promoting causes for the disabled." Very small faint soiling mark on bottom of text block. Dust jacket is… Read More
Item Price
A$27.20
A$7.75 shipping to USA
FLYWHEEL:  MEMORIES OF THE OPEN ROAD.

FLYWHEEL: MEMORIES OF THE OPEN ROAD.

by Swallow, Tom and Pill, Arthur H.

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780863501517
ISBN 10
0863501516
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$31.08
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Exeter: Webb & Bower/Michael Joseph, 1987. Unpaginated, 8vo (8 1/4" H). Colour drawings/sketches throughout, pictorial endpapers. "(A) facsimile reproduction of a unique collection of Motoring Magazines produced during World War 2 in a Prisoner of War camp in Mulhberg, Germany. Each edition was drawn and scripted by hand and circulated around the camp for the members to read and pass on. The first being produced in May 1944 and the last in March 1945,(they describe) motoring adventures before the war, road tests of motor cars and motorcycles, features on the quest for the 'Ideal Motor Car', a speculative edition featuring the 1944 Motor Show, motoring advertisements, editorial comment and even a letters page. The illustrations and text were produced largely from memory using whatever raw materials the staff could lay their hands on, employing considerable ingenuity in the face of adversity." Minor soiling on top of textblock, slight waviness to edges of textblock. Dust… Read More
Item Price
A$31.08
A$7.75 shipping to USA
GROUNDED IN EIRE: THE STORY OF TWO RAF FLIERS INTERNED IN IRELAND DURING WORLD WAR II.

GROUNDED IN EIRE: THE STORY OF TWO RAF FLIERS INTERNED IN IRELAND DURING WORLD WAR II.

by Keefer, Ralph.

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. 263 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs, drawings, maps. "Off-course after a failed mission over Frankfurt in 1941, Bobby Keefer and his best friend Jack Calder found themselves forced to bail out of their twin-engine Wellington over Southern Ireland. Much to their surprise, rather than being returned to their squadron in England, they were interned for having violated Ireland's neutral airspace. After an unusual interrogation at the hands of the Local Defence Force, the two Canadian flyers were transferred to a makeshift prison camp in County Kidare - right next to a similar camp for German prisoners. There they found themselves subject to a surreal honour system that allowed them daily parole away from their internment camp - free to golf, meet women, and drink beer - without supervision. This system forbid escape when they were on parole but bound them, as RAF officers, to attempt to do so upon their return to camp."… Read More
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA
GUARDSMAN AND COMMANDO:  THE WAR MEMOIRS OF RSM CYRIL FEEBERY, DCM.

GUARDSMAN AND COMMANDO: THE WAR MEMOIRS OF RSM CYRIL FEEBERY, DCM.

by Feebery, Cyril, DCM. As told to David Feebery.

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good+
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9781844158119
ISBN 10
184415811x
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$27.20
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2008. 148 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs. "After joining the Grenadier Guards in 1937, Cyril Feebery served in the British Expeditionary Force before being evacuated wounded from Dunkirk. Undeterred he volunteered for the newly formed Commandos and, on completion of their rigorous training in Scotland, was sent to the Middle East to be a member of Layforce. After its disbandment, he joined the Folboat Section, later the Special Boat Section, and trained as a canoeist under Captain Roger Courtney MC to conduct commando operations from submarines. When the SBS was later absorbed into the Special Air Service, Feebery took part in raids on Benghazi and Tripoli. As part of the SBS, Feebery served as Squadron Sergeant Major under Major the Earl Jellicoe. Captured by Italian forces after a raid on airfields in Sardinia, he later escaped from his POW camp in Italy and successfully made his way back to Allied lines. After recovering from malaria, he became Squadron… Read More
Item Price
A$27.20
A$7.75 shipping to USA
IN ENEMY HANDS:  CANADIAN PRISONERS OF WAR, 1939-45.

IN ENEMY HANDS: CANADIAN PRISONERS OF WAR, 1939-45.

by Dancocks, Daniel G.

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780888302403
ISBN 10
0888302401
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$19.43
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Edmonton: Hurtig, 1983. 303 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w photographs. "There were more than nine thousand Canadians taken prisoner during World War II. Here, in their own words, are the stories of 165 of them - soldiers, airmen, sailors, captured in Europe and the Far East and imprisoned in camps in Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, and Japan. Forty years after the event, they retell their remarkable adventures." Light old tape marks on free endpapers, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, light dust staining/foxing on top of text block. Dust jacket has minor edgewear/wrinkling, slight waviness at edges, minor rubbing.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
Item Price
A$19.43
A$7.75 shipping to USA
JOHN WORSLEY'S WAR.  AN OFFICIAL WAR ARTIST IN WORLD WAR II.

JOHN WORSLEY'S WAR. AN OFFICIAL WAR ARTIST IN WORLD WAR II.

by Worsley, John and Giggal, Kenneth.

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9781853102578
ISBN 10
1853102571
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Shrewsbury: Air Life, 1993. 116 pp, small 4to (10 7/16" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour reproductions of the author/artist's work. "John Worsley was one of the very few active service artists of the Second World War, and in this book he recalls his experiences both in active sea warfare and later as a prisoner of war. At the outbreak of war the twenty-year-old John Worsley joined up as a Midshipman and during off duty moments sketched his fellow sailors and incidental scenes of life at sea. Having survived the sinking of his first ship, HMS Laurentic, destroyer service on Atlantic convoys and, during 1942, troop convoys from the Red Sea to Australia in the cruiser HMS Devonshire, in 1943 he was made an Official Naval War Artist on the Commander-in-Chief's staff, Malta. After covering the first Italian landing in the Straits of Messina at Reggio and later the landing at Salerno, he moved on to cover some of the nefarious activities opening up the Naval front in… Read More
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA
KOREA 1950-1953: PRISONERS OF WAR, THE BRITISH ARMY.

KOREA 1950-1953: PRISONERS OF WAR, THE BRITISH ARMY.

by Gaston, Peter, compiled by.

  • Used
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Very Good+
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9780948130908
ISBN 10
0948130903
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$15.54
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
London: London Stamp Exchange, 1976. 28 pp, 8 1/4" H. "This list contains the names of British Army personnel who were reported 'Missing' and, in most cases, their eventual classification. Names of those definitely identified as KIA (i.e. who never became POWs) have in general been withdrawn although there are one or two exceptions in an endeavour to correct the many lists in circulation made from newspaper reports of the period and subject to gross inaccuracy. " Names are listed alphabetically under regiments. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - one or two small soft creases on rear cover.. Stapled in Wraps. Very Good+.
Item Price
A$15.54
A$7.75 shipping to USA
A LEAP IN THE DARK:  A WELSH AIRMAN'S ADVENTURES IN OCCUPIED EUROPE.

A LEAP IN THE DARK: A WELSH AIRMAN'S ADVENTURES IN OCCUPIED EUROPE.

by Davies, James Arthur.

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good -
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780850523140
ISBN 10
0850523141
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
London: Leo Cooper, 1994. 170 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, map. Jim Davies' story of being shot down over Holland in World War II, of evading capture with the help of the Dutch Resistance, only to be betrayed in the end by a double agent. Sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland, he later assumed that he would be liberated by the Russians at the end of the war, but the Germans took the prisoners with them as they retreated. "(A)n inspiring story of great courage and self-sacrifice in the face of appalling hardship and constant danger." Minor wrinkle at top/bottom of spine, approx. 4" x 1/2" uneven piece missing from margin of page 39/40 - manufacturing flaw - not affecting text. Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor rubbing. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Very Good. Illus. by Max Schindler, wraparound dust jacket art..
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA
P.O.W.  THE UNCIVIL FACE OF WAR.

P.O.W. THE UNCIVIL FACE OF WAR.

by Garrett, Richard.

  • Used
  • very good
  • Paperback
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
Reprint
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 13
9780715392010
ISBN 10
0715392018
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$15.54
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1988. 240 pp, 7 3/4" H. B&w illustrations. "(T)ells the story of the men who, from the days of the Hundred Years War to the present day, were captives in wartime. It is a tale that does humanity little credit. Prisoners have been starved, tortured, brainwashed, and housed in conditions that would shame a civilian jail. Here you will find the true story of captors' inhumanity to captives throughout the ages as well as the efforts of the Red Cross to lessen the torture. Yet throughout the narrative runs a stirring heart-beat of courage." Interior - light browning to pages, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light browning to edges of text block, two very small dints on front cover.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good.
Item Price
A$15.54
A$7.75 shipping to USA
ROSSANO: A VALLEY IN FLAMES.  A STORY OF THE ITALIAN RESISTANCE.

ROSSANO: A VALLEY IN FLAMES. A STORY OF THE ITALIAN RESISTANCE.

by Lett, Gordon, Major. Introduction by James Holland. Forewords by Brian Lett & Freya Stark.

  • Used
  • Fine
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Fine
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9781848326217
ISBN 10
1848326211
Quantity Available
1
Seller
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Frontline, 2011. 205 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, map. "In July 1942, Major Gordon Lett was taken prisoner at the fall of Tobruk. After fourteen months in the notorious prison camps at Bari and Chieti, he escaped at the Armistice of September 1943 from the camp at Veano and took to the mountains above the Cisa Pass. Rather than return to England, he founded and led an entirely non-political band of highly-successful partisans, the Battaglione Internazionale. The group fought and harassed the Brigate Nere and the Germans along the Magra Valley from north of Pontremoli to La Spezia for eighteen months. They were so influential to the success of the Allied advance that permanent lines of communication with the Allies were established, supplies dropped by air and, later, SAS troops sent in to assist the Battalion. 500 Allied troops escaped to safety via Rossano." Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, minor rubbing, tiny dent on rear hinge. Hard… Read More
Item Price
A$23.31
A$7.75 shipping to USA
Add to Want List

Didn’t find what you’re looking for?

Try adding this search to your want list. Millions of books are added to our site everyday and when we find one that matches your search, we’ll send you an email. Best of all, it’s free.

Add to Want List
Book lovers can save on books by joining our Bibliophiles club

Are you a frequent reader or book collector?

Join the Bibliophile's Club and save 10% on every purchase, every day — up to $20 savings per order!

Biblio is a socially responsible company

Social Responsibility

Did you know that since 2004, Biblio has used its profits to build 16 public libraries in rural villages of South America?