Pape, Richard, — BOLDNESS BE MY FRIEND.
Elek, London, 1953, 4th 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, sl. cocked, lightly rubbed at tips, edges well tanned, lacks front free endpaper, a few light fox marks throughout, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems., loss at head of spine and cnrs., sl. surface flaking at folds, several edges tears, internally repaired, good plus in a good dustwrapper,
