Ticket to Hell via Dieppe from a Prisoner's Wartime Log 1942-1945 by A Robert Prouse - 1982

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London: Webb and Bower Ltd,. Very Good/Very Good. 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vp 0906671620 Dust jacket complete. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Name on half title. Numerous photographs in colour & b/w/ 192 pages clean and tight. This fascinating memoir of three years spent in Stalag IXC deep within the Third Reich recreates in rich detail what life was like behind barbed wire. Prouse was one of almost 2,000 men captured after the slaughter on the beaches of Dieppe on August 19, 1942. He had been anxious to taste battle and jumped at the chance to be part of the `reconnaissance-inforce' that proved to be one of the most disastrous and tragic actions of the war. He recounts how he was pinned down on the stony beach between the incoming tide and the withering German fire, how he was wounded and captured and cared for before being shipped to his new home in the heart of Europe. From then until the camp's liberation in April, 1945, Prouse and his… Read More

Webb & Bower, London, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. vvery/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. prologue by author, five appendices. Illustrated endpapers – showing a montage of photographs and documents from World War II. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs, reproductions of documents, cartoons and maps. Between pages 48 and 49 there are eight pages of coloured illustrations. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with black and red coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. "This fascinating memoir of three years spent in Stalag IXC deep within the Third Reich recreates in rich detail what life was like behind barbed wire." –- from the front fold over panel blurb. Rubbing to the book corners and back strip edges. Faint foxing to the text block edges. Gift inscription to the verso of the free front endpaper. Creasing… Read More

Magnolia, 1982. 1st edition. fine/fine. fine book in fine dw 1st Magnolia 1982 hardcover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Webb & Bower, Exeter, England.. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0906671620 . The personal memoirs of three years spent in Stalag IXC German prison camp. Illustrated. 192 pages. Dust jacket and book are in Fine condition. ; Standard Book Size. .

1982-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Webb & Bower, Exeter: 1982. Original pictoral dustjacket. Uniformly bound, embossed black cloth. Clean and bright text. Binding firm.

Exeter: Webb & Bower, 1982. First Edition. . Cloth. Vg/Vg. 192pp. illustrated. Size: 8vo

Webb & Bower, 1982. Hardcover. Good.

Exeter: Webb & Bower. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0906671620 . With many illustrations, A fine copy in fine dustjacket. A memoir of three years spent in Stalag IXC deep within the Third Reich. ; 240 x 160mm; 192 pages .

Exeter : Webb & Bower, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 192p, [8]p of plates : ill (some col.), facsims (some col.), maps, ports ; 25cm. Subjects: Prouse, A Robert. Canadian Forces. World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945 ; Personal narratives, Canadian. Genre: Military History. Language: English.