Return Ticket by Anthony Deane-Drummond
Condition: Good vintage condition. Some minor wear on the cover - creases/scuffs/rubbing etc. The spine is on a slight lean however all pages are strong and tight. Inside is clean with minimal signs of use.
Notes: Vintage 1969 paperback with some B+W maps in places.
Deane-Drummond was one of the first parachutists to land in enemy Italy on a raid in 1941, and was taken prisoner after his mission was completed. Twice he made ingenious and daring escapes; once from a prison and once from a military hospital. On each occasion he reached the heavily guarded Swiss frontier and on the second, he managed to cross it. He travelled through war-time France and back to England.
He then promptly joined the First Airborne Division and was dropped with that immortal body of men on Arnhem. There he was taken prisoner once more, and having spent 13 days and 13 nights hidden in a constricted wall-cupboard in a German guard-room, he escaped yet again, recovered in the house of a courageous Dutch family from this truly astonishing feat of endurance and crossed back into the British lines. As a story of ingenuity, courage and determination, this is difficult to equal.
Condition: Good vintage condition. Some minor wear on the cover - creases/scuffs/rubbing etc. The spine is on a slight lean however all pages are strong and tight. Inside is clean with minimal signs of use.
Notes: Vintage 1969 paperback with some B+W maps in places.
Deane-Drummond was one of the first parachutists to land in enemy Italy on a raid in 1941, and was taken prisoner after his mission was completed. Twice he made ingenious and daring escapes; once from a prison and once from a military hospital. On each occasion he reached the heavily guarded Swiss frontier and on the second, he managed to cross it. He travelled through war-time France and back to England.
He then promptly joined the First Airborne Division and was dropped with that immortal body of men on Arnhem. There he was taken prisoner once more, and having spent 13 days and 13 nights hidden in a constricted wall-cupboard in a German guard-room, he escaped yet again, recovered in the house of a courageous Dutch family from this truly astonishing feat of endurance and crossed back into the British lines. As a story of ingenuity, courage and determination, this is difficult to equal.
Condition: Good vintage condition. Some minor wear on the cover - creases/scuffs/rubbing etc. The spine is on a slight lean however all pages are strong and tight. Inside is clean with minimal signs of use.
Notes: Vintage 1969 paperback with some B+W maps in places.
Deane-Drummond was one of the first parachutists to land in enemy Italy on a raid in 1941, and was taken prisoner after his mission was completed. Twice he made ingenious and daring escapes; once from a prison and once from a military hospital. On each occasion he reached the heavily guarded Swiss frontier and on the second, he managed to cross it. He travelled through war-time France and back to England.
He then promptly joined the First Airborne Division and was dropped with that immortal body of men on Arnhem. There he was taken prisoner once more, and having spent 13 days and 13 nights hidden in a constricted wall-cupboard in a German guard-room, he escaped yet again, recovered in the house of a courageous Dutch family from this truly astonishing feat of endurance and crossed back into the British lines. As a story of ingenuity, courage and determination, this is difficult to equal.