Freeman C Denis (19 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Third Impression. Cooper and Freeman found themselves in Paris at a critical time during the invasion of France in 1940. They took an engagement with the French Army to join Section Sanitaire Automobile du Front and this tells the story of their transfer oof wounded soldiers by ambulance to Bor…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paperback original collection in the UK. The front cover has two creases to the bottom right corner and a little surface and edge wear. The rear cover is a little discoloured with some spotting and a light blue mark near the bottom. The spine has some reading creasing,…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The story of two British men working in the theatre in Paris as World War Two broke who joined the French Army as ambulance drivers. It is a very personal account of their remarkable adventures in June 1940 and vividly brings to life the chaos as millions fled in the face of the German adva…

8vo., Second Impression, on laid paper, with full-page illustrations by Ardizzone and endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endp…

First edition, first impression, of this memoir, which went through four impressions in one year. In early 1940, the authors enlisted with the French army as ambulance drivers, leaving Paris only a couple of days before it fell to the Germans. They chronicle the generalized panic and chaos and the retreat to Perigueux, an emergi…