Eric williams signed by author (1 Ergebnisse)
Weitere BilderVerlag: COLLINS - LONDON, 1950
- Hardcover
- Signiert
Anbieter: Bishops Green Books, Newbury, BERKS, Vereinigtes KönigreichBishops Green Books
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. Brown cloth, hardback, with gilt title impressions on the spine. Comes with worn and torn, dust jacket, please see photo. The book is in good condition, normal wear and marks apply consistent with use and age. Signed in green ink by the author Eric Williams on title page, just under his name. 16th editi…on dated December 1950, first published in 1949. 256 pages, all intact, all pages, text and illustrations are in good, clean, readable order. This is the story of the most daring and ingenious escape of the whole war, with the irresistible appeal common to all truly great stories of human adventure and endurance. The wooden horse escape was for a long time only a legend among prisoner of war; now the whole story is told. It was a "Classic" escape, perhaps because it was conceived on classic lines. The Greeks made a wooden horse and by means of it entered the city of Troy; in 1943 two British officers made a wooden horse and by means of it escaped from a German prison camp; together with a third companion, they were the only British Officers ever to escape successfully and to reach England from this camp, though many tried. It was the notorious Stalag Luft III, designed to hold the Germans' most prized prisoners, aircrew, and considered to be escape proof, the camp from which the great mass escape was later made when fifty prisoners were shot down in cold blood. Their escape from the camp itself is only a part of the story. Once outside the wire, they were still faced by the problem of getting out of Germany. They had many adventures; time after time disaster threatened to overwhelm them, making the reader as often catch and hold his breath. "This is a Classic." How rarely can those words be written with confidence on publication day! But it is certain that this is a permanent addition to literature of escape." EVENING STANDARD. Signed by Author(s).
