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DOMINY, JOHN - Foreword by Airey Neave: : THE SERGEANT ESCAPERS

UK.SHEPPERTON,SURREY.IAN ALLAN LTD.,1974.

ISBN 0711005699.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn.FINE-/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork design by Michael Stride,illustrated front of dw/dj with author's red-lettered name, capitalised,white-lettered title and other white-lettered Airey Neave Foreword credit; a very lightly sunned spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author name+title as the front's and publisher’s b/w illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj plain black without illustration or text. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present and almost scoring/indent-free.Top edges with remarkably minimal ageing/toning for a 50 year-old book, fore-edge brighter and both without foxing/spotting; contents virtually pristine - no page-edge toning,no foxing/spotting and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages'corner tips,appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered original,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,7-136pp [paginated] includes a Foreword bu Airey Neave DSO,OBE,MC,TD, MP.,author's Preface,a Prologue, 16 chapters and an Epilogue,8pp contemporary b/w photogrpahs in 1 block,between pp68/69; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,and a dedication.                                  Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 50 year-old age. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and almost total lack of detracting faults.                        Most of the great escape stories so far told have been concerned with the exploits of officer prisoners of war in well known camps like Colditz and Stalag Luft III.less well known but equally heroic were those of the large numbers of Royal Air Force NCO pilots,observers and air gunners who fell into German hands.Although early in the war they shared camps with their officers at places like Sagan and cooperated closely in developing escape organisations,the NCOs were soon segregated into their own compounds and left to their own resources in the ceaseless struggle to escape.A particularly notorious NCO camp was Heydekrug on the Baltic coast in what was East Prusiia - the scene of one of the most remarkable POW exploits of the war. A tough,daring and resourceful escaper,Warrant Officer George Grimson,succeeded in establishing an escape route within Nazi Germany itself. Destined to be one of the great classic escape books,'Sergeant Escapers' tells the story of George Grimson and his fellow NCOs and their attempts,successful and unsuccessful,to outwit their captors,frequently in conditions that made Colditz look like a rest camp.The author was himself a POW and an eye-witness to the unfolding drama of the Grimson escaape saga.      The Foreword is by Airey Neave,DSO,MC,MP,the first man to escape to England fromColditz and,in later days,the author's commanding officer. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!  N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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