PAPE, RICHARD — Sequel to Boldness

UK, Odhams Press Limited. 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket, 23.5cm. Book, 256pp, several photo sections, approx 650g packed/carded for posting. dj worn at edges & corners. Synopsis >>> In Sequel To Boldness Richard Pape continues the story of the comrades with whom he worked in the R.A.F. and in the Dutch and other resistance movements-a story which it was impossible to write before. He tells of the agonies and deaths of valiant people during the war and what happened afterwards to those who lived. He meets the relatives of Dutchmen Besselink and Agterkamp, men who were executed by the Gestapo for helping him; he recounts how "Billy" Leonhardt and Mona, his Canadian wife, assisted him, and tells of the agonizing escape of Mona from the horrors of a concentration camp. An inspiring chapter describes the return from the dead of Mieteck Borodej (the Pole with whom he had escaped in 1942) after twelve years' exile in Siberia. The fate of many magnificent people who had helped him was due to betrayal. Pape, obsessed by vengeance, seeks to track down the betrayer and returns from South Africa to Holland-with a sequel that is at once unexpected and the key to the whole book. Very Good/Good/Fair.