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A Leap in the Dark: A Welsh Airman's Adventures in Occupied Europe
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A Leap in the Dark: A Welsh Airman's Adventures in Occupied Europe Hardcover - 1994

by Davies, James Arthur


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Following reunions with the courageous Dutch families - from Protestant farmers in the north to Catholic industrialists in the south - who sheltered him during World War II, the author recounts their story and his own wartime experiences, including imprisonment in Belgium and Poland.

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  • Title A Leap in the Dark: A Welsh Airman's Adventures in Occupied Europe
  • Author Davies, James Arthur
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 170
  • Publisher Leo Cooper, London
  • Date 1994
  • ISBN 9780850523140
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London: Leo Cooper, 1994. 170 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, map. Jim Davies' story of being shot down over Holland in World War II, of evading capture with the help of the Dutch Resistance, only to be betrayed in the end by a double agent. Sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland, he later assumed that he would be liberated by the Russians at the end of the war, but the Germans took the prisoners with them as they retreated. "(A)n inspiring story of great courage and self-sacrifice in the face of appalling hardship and constant danger." Minor wrinkle at top/bottom of spine, approx. 4" x 1/2" uneven piece missing from margin of page 39/40 - manufacturing flaw - not affecting text. Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor rubbing. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Very Good. Illus. by Max Schindler, wraparound dust jacket art..
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