Pape, Richard, — BOLDNESS BE MY FRIEND.
Pan Books, London, 1955, 1st in imprint, paperback, 250pp, 4pp half tone ills., 4pp maps, [ii] ads., pictorial wrappers, 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 by feigning illness in 1944, slight rioll ansd slant to spine, rubbed at extrems. esp. at spine edges, spine heavily sunned, light soiling and creasisng to wrappers, edges tanned, fair,