Pape, Richard, — BOLDNESS BE MY FRIEND.
The Companion Book Club, London, 1954, club edn., 288pp, 8pp half tone ills., double page plan in text, maps at endpapers, ochre cloth with navy blue title panel lettered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, the classic tale of an airman's WW2 bombing mission: the author was navigator in an RAF Stirling returning from a Bombing mission in Germany in 1941 when it was shot down over Holland. After first linking up with Dutch patriots he was captured, confined to POW camp and spent the next 3 years in various camps or escape attempts before finally managing to be repatriated in 1944 by feigning illness, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned and faintly foxed, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., a little foxed to reverse, relined at spine ends and cnrs., very good in a very good dustwrapper,
