Pape, Richard, — BOLDNESS BE MY FRIEND.
Elek, London, 1954, 5th imp., 309pp, [5pp] maps, 12pp half tone ills., red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, dustwrapper by Val Biro, 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, a little bumped and rubbed at extrems., edges tanned and lightly foxed, ink name front free endpaper, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems. with sl. loss to spine ends and cnrs., a little soiled and creased, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,
