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The Longest Walk Home: The Epic 2,000-Mile Escape of a WWII Prisoner of War - Softcover

Bailey, Ray; Wilkins, David

 
9781529447101: The Longest Walk Home: The Epic 2,000-Mile Escape of a WWII Prisoner of War
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1529447100 ISBN 13: 9781529447101
Verlag: Quercus, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

The recently discovered gripping escape memoir of WWII POW Raymond Bailey

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Raymond Bailey was born in 1919, the son of a miner. He left school aged fourteen and began work as an apprentice lathe operator at the Vauxhall Car Works in Luton. In 1939 he was in the first wave of young British men called up to fight in the Second World War. After basic training, Ray's battalion was posted to France and thrown into some of the bloodiest fighting of the entire conflict. In June 1940, just a few weeks after arriving in France, Ray found himself among the thousands of British soldiers captured at the catastrophic Battle of St Valery.

David Wilkins spent most of his working life in the charitable and public sectors. He also taught at university. Outside of work he has long collected old diaries, manuscripts, letters, photo albums and other similar items. In 2019 he gambled on a box of old notebooks at auction and discovered he now owned Ray Bailey's wartime memoir. The Longest Walk is David's second book based on a found memoir (his first book was published in 2017).

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Verlag
Quercus
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529447100
ISBN 13 
9781529447101
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Quercus
https://quercusbooks.co.uk

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