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NICHOL**, JOHN & RENNELL, TONY: : THE LAST ESCAPE: The untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Germany 1944-45. [Both co-author's SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.PENGUIN/VIKING,2002.

ISBN 0670910945.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj, but both co-author's handwritten black,ink signatures to title page.Bright,clean, contemporary b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj with white+gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges or corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges minimally aged,but clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Publisher's original,clean,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w map (of principal POW camps in Germany,1944/5.) endpapers.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp,x-xxipp+3- 471pp [paginated] includes list of illus+ photograph credits,acknowledgements,a preface,15 chapters+epilogue,8 b/w maps, 16pp b/w contemporary photographs,in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp170/1 and pp282/3 respectively,appendices(4),notes,a bibliography and an index - plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED title page,a dedication,contents list/table, list of maps,4pp blanks to rear. By June 1944,hundreds of thousands of British and American soldiers and airmen were prisoners of war in camps across Nazi Germany. The war was reaching its endgame.On the Eastern Front the Red Army was advancing, the front line moving through Poland and towards the border with Germany.And in the west,British and American troops were storming the beaches of northern France. News of the D-Day landings,heard on secret camp radios,filled the prisoners with hope,but their joy turned into foreboding as their captors reacted to the threat. Many POWs feared they would be killed by the retreating German armies rather than allowed to fall into the hands of the Russians.Instead,in the depths of winter, their guards forced them to march out of the camps and further into Germany,away from their would-be liberators. The marches were long and desperately arduous.Some POWs walked for more than 500 miles and were on the road for many months. Hundreds died of exhaustion,disease and starvation.Those who survived were awed by their experience.How they escaped with their lives and eventually reached home is a gripping story of endurance and courage. John Nichol (himself a prisoner of war in the Gulf conflict in 1991) and Tony Rennell have interviewed many veterans, travelling with some of them back to the site of the camps,and retracing parts of the marches.In 'The Last Escape' they relate the astonishing history of these unrecognized heroes,now in their seventies and eighties and reliving their extraordinary experiences publicly for the first time. Since April 2013,and in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So, please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.
Both co-author's signatures - both without dedication..

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