Jan Atkins (35 results)

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Tunstall, Tiffany (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Self-published. 2009. Softcover. Octavo (mid-size). Fine. Book is clean, with strong binding, no creases, and no writing. 276 pages. Tunstall, Tiffany (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Condition: New. Hardback 274 pages This study reconstructs the wartime experience of an RAF special duties crew formed in 1943 from British, Canadian, and Argentine volunteers under Flight Lieutenant Peter Bartter. Serving with 138 Squadron at RAF Tempsford, they conducted hazardous low-level missions over Occupied Europe, delivering agents and supplies to resistance networks, and later operated from North Africa with 624 Squadron.Their final mission-delivering SOE leader Flemming Muus to Denmark-ended in disaster when their Halifax was shot down in December 1943. Bartter's skill ensured a crash-landing without fatalities, allowing Muus to escape. The crew split: officers evaded to Sweden, while NCOs were captured and imprisoned in Stalag IV-B.Tracing their journey from training to postwar lives, the book combines operational history with personal narrative, further enriched by descendants' research, site excavations, and interviews, offering a multi-generational reconstruction of courage, loss, and memory. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Hardback. Condition: New. For several months in 1943, seven young airmen, all volunteers, were moulded into an RAF crew tasked with undertaking perilous operations over Occupied Europe. Drawn together from England, Argentina, and Canada, the crew, led by their captain, Flight Lieutenant Peter Bartter, were assigned to 138 (Special Duties) Squadron, based at RAF Tempsford. It was there that they flew low, over dangerous territory to deliver agents and equipment to aid the Resistance in Occupied Europe.When the Allies opened new fronts in North Africa and Italy, Bartter's crew was seconded for some weeks to 624 Squadron flying from Blida in Algeria and Protville in Tunisia. On their return to the UK, they had the additional task of bringing back Winston Churchill's son, Randolph.The crew's last operation would be to fly Flemming Muus, as head of SOE in Denmark, to Roskilde in Denmark. However, tragedy struck when their Halifax Mk.II, BB378, was shot down approaching its destination on the night of 10/11 December 1943.Exemplary piloting skills from Peter Bartter brought the aircraft down in a frozen field with no injuries. Muus thankfully escaped. The crew, meanwhile, split into two groups - the officers, and the NCOs.The officers managed to evade capture and reach Sweden. One of the officers, Ernesto Howell, went on to re-join 138 Squadron, but was sadly killed flying over the North Sea in November 1944.The NCOs' luck gave out, and they were all captured, spending the rest of the war in the notorious Stalag IV-B. From there, one of the NCOs managed to escape just before the camp liberated by the Russians.In this book, the crew are traced from their recruitment, to training, deployment and, for the survivors, their post-war lives. The next generation, René, son of agent Ernest Gimpel, and Nigel Atkins, son of Brian Atkins, the co-pilot, have become firm friends. Nigel Atkins travelled across Europe on a journey of discovery as he has met and interviewed many people while visiting multiple locations the crew only visited from above.From daring flights over occupied Europe to meetings over seventy years later, the excavation of the crash site and new friendships formed, this book has it all.…

Hardback. Condition: New. For several months in 1943, seven young airmen, all volunteers, were moulded into an RAF crew tasked with undertaking perilous operations over Occupied Europe. Drawn together from England, Argentina, and Canada, the crew, led by their captain, Flight Lieutenant Peter Bartter, were assigned to 138 (Special Duties) Squadron, based at RAF Tempsford. It was there that they flew low, over dangerous territory to deliver agents and equipment to aid the Resistance in Occupied Europe.When the Allies opened new fronts in North Africa and Italy, Bartter's crew was seconded for some weeks to 624 Squadron flying from Blida in Algeria and Protville in Tunisia. On their return to the UK, they had the additional task of bringing back Winston Churchill's son, Randolph.The crew's last operation would be to fly Flemming Muus, as head of SOE in Denmark, to Roskilde in Denmark. However, tragedy struck when their Halifax Mk.II, BB378, was shot down approaching its destination on the night of 10/11 December 1943.Exemplary piloting skills from Peter Bartter brought the aircraft down in a frozen field with no injuries. Muus thankfully escaped. The crew, meanwhile, split into two groups - the officers, and the NCOs.The officers managed to evade capture and reach Sweden. One of the officers, Ernesto Howell, went on to re-join 138 Squadron, but was sadly killed flying over the North Sea in November 1944.The NCOs' luck gave out, and they were all captured, spending the rest of the war in the notorious Stalag IV-B. From there, one of the NCOs managed to escape just before the camp liberated by the Russians.In this book, the crew are traced from their recruitment, to training, deployment and, for the survivors, their post-war lives. The next generation, René, son of agent Ernest Gimpel, and Nigel Atkins, son of Brian Atkins, the co-pilot, have become firm friends. Nigel Atkins travelled across Europe on a journey of discovery as he has met and interviewed many people while visiting multiple locations the crew only visited from above.From daring flights over occupied Europe to meetings over seventy years later, the excavation of the crash site and new friendships formed, this book has it all.…

hardcover. Condition: New. *Brand new* Ships from USA.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. ISBN 590205161. First edition and printing.Foreword by Coretta Scott King 'An Illustrated Edition'.In fine quarter black cloth and gold boards with black titles to front, gilt titles to back strip. The covers ("Reinforced Binding") are almost as new.Very clean gold coloured end papers. Unmarked cut edges. The text block is in fine plus condition, with lovely bright, colour illustrations on most left hand (very glossy) pages, facing extracts from "I Have A Dream" speech. Artists are: Ashley Brian, George Ford, Carole Byard, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Leo and Diane Dillon, Brian Pinkney, Jerry Pinkney, Floyd Cooper, Tom Feelings, Terea Shaffer, Wil Clay, James Ransome and Kathleen Atkins Wilson. Looks unused. No marks, dedications etc.Almost as new. In fine pictorial dust jacket - black border with colour image of Luther King by Leo and Diane Dillon. Not price clipped.Inside is a collection of Luther King memorabilia: cards, leaflets etc. Ashley Brian, George Ford, Carole Byard, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Leo and Diane Dillon, Brian Pinkney, Jerry Pinkney, Floyd Cooper, Tom Feelings, Terea Shaffer, Wil Clay, James Ransome and Kathleen Atkins Wilson (illustrator).…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 9.20x6.10x1.22 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New. For several months in 1943, seven young airmen, all volunteers, were moulded into an RAF crew tasked with undertaking perilous operations over Occupied Europe. Drawn together from England, Argentina, and Canada, the crew, led by their captain, Flight Lieutenant Peter Bartter, were assigned to 138 (Special Duties) Squadron, based at RAF Tempsford. It was there that they flew low, over dangerous territory to deliver agents and equipment to aid the Resistance in Occupied Europe.When the Allies opened new fronts in North Africa and Italy, Bartter's crew was seconded for some weeks to 624 Squadron flying from Blida in Algeria and Protville in Tunisia. On their return to the UK, they had the additional task of bringing back Winston Churchill's son, Randolph.The crew's last operation would be to fly Flemming Muus, as head of SOE in Denmark, to Roskilde in Denmark. However, tragedy struck when their Halifax Mk.II, BB378, was shot down approaching its destination on the night of 10/11 December 1943.Exemplary piloting skills from Peter Bartter brought the aircraft down in a frozen field with no injuries. Muus thankfully escaped. The crew, meanwhile, split into two groups - the officers, and the NCOs.The officers managed to evade capture and reach Sweden. One of the officers, Ernesto Howell, went on to re-join 138 Squadron, but was sadly killed flying over the North Sea in November 1944.The NCOs' luck gave out, and they were all captured, spending the rest of the war in the notorious Stalag IV-B. From there, one of the NCOs managed to escape just before the camp liberated by the Russians.In this book, the crew are traced from their recruitment, to training, deployment and, for the survivors, their post-war lives. The next generation, René, son of agent Ernest Gimpel, and Nigel Atkins, son of Brian Atkins, the co-pilot, have become firm friends. Nigel Atkins travelled across Europe on a journey of discovery as he has met and interviewed many people while visiting multiple locations the crew only visited from above.From daring flights over occupied Europe to meetings over seventy years later, the excavation of the crash site and new friendships formed, this book has it all.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 9.53x7.72x2.52 inches. In Stock.

Hardback. Condition: New. For several months in 1943, seven young airmen, all volunteers, were moulded into an RAF crew tasked with undertaking perilous operations over Occupied Europe. Drawn together from England, Argentina, and Canada, the crew, led by their captain, Flight Lieutenant Peter Bartter, were assigned to 138 (Special Duties) Squadron, based at RAF Tempsford. It was there that they flew low, over dangerous territory to deliver agents and equipment to aid the Resistance in Occupied Europe.When the Allies opened new fronts in North Africa and Italy, Bartter's crew was seconded for some weeks to 624 Squadron flying from Blida in Algeria and Protville in Tunisia. On their return to the UK, they had the additional task of bringing back Winston Churchill's son, Randolph.The crew's last operation would be to fly Flemming Muus, as head of SOE in Denmark, to Roskilde in Denmark. However, tragedy struck when their Halifax Mk.II, BB378, was shot down approaching its destination on the night of 10/11 December 1943.Exemplary piloting skills from Peter Bartter brought the aircraft down in a frozen field with no injuries. Muus thankfully escaped. The crew, meanwhile, split into two groups - the officers, and the NCOs.The officers managed to evade capture and reach Sweden. One of the officers, Ernesto Howell, went on to re-join 138 Squadron, but was sadly killed flying over the North Sea in November 1944.The NCOs' luck gave out, and they were all captured, spending the rest of the war in the notorious Stalag IV-B. From there, one of the NCOs managed to escape just before the camp liberated by the Russians.In this book, the crew are traced from their recruitment, to training, deployment and, for the survivors, their post-war lives. The next generation, René, son of agent Ernest Gimpel, and Nigel Atkins, son of Brian Atkins, the co-pilot, have become firm friends. Nigel Atkins travelled across Europe on a journey of discovery as he has met and interviewed many people while visiting multiple locations the crew only visited from above.From daring flights over occupied Europe to meetings over seventy years later, the excavation of the crash site and new friendships formed, this book has it all.…

Oprawa wydawnicza kartonowa. @ Cover design and illustrations / Projekt okladki i ilustracje: Projekt okladki Jan Mlodozeniec; @ Blurb / Notka wydawnicza: Warszawa: Czytelnik, 1954; @ Size of the book block / Wymiar bloku: 20 cm; @ Circulation / Naklad: 5241; @ Weight / Waga: 270; @ Pages / Strony: 314, [2]s.; @ Thematic categories / Kategorie tematyczne: design grafika uzytkowa oprawy / okladki 1950-1959, historia dyplomacji i polityki zagranicznej II wojna swiatowa miedzywojnie 1918-1939 i okres do 1945, historia Polski dyplomacji i polityki zagranicznej - h. Polski emigracja, Polonia, zeslanie - h. Polski II wojna swiatowa - h. Polski miedzywojnie 1918-1939 i okres do 1944 / 45, historia regiony i kraje historia Europy, ilustratorzy graficy Mlodozeniec Jan / , history World War II the period between 1918-1939, history of Poland emmigration World War II the period between 1918-1944 / 45, / , Geschichte 2. Weltkrieg Zwischenkriegszeit, Geschichte Polens Emigration 2. Weltkrieg Zwischenkriegszeit; Oprawa nieznacznie uszkodzona, tylna okladka nieco mocniej uszkodzona, drobne zagiecia czesci kart bloku, na karcie przedtytulowej prywatny wpis wlasnosciowy. Pozycja w dosc ladnym stanie. Projekt okladki Jan Mlodozeniec (illustrator). …

Medienkombination. Condition: New.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Leatherbound Edition - Signed & Numbered Ltd. Edition No. 22 of 500 (Signed by Clive Barker) - Also of 2000 copies signed by Scott Hampton - NF/NF (bottom back tip lightly bumped) - One of the most popular horror movie series of all time spawned a landmark comic book anthology which ran from 1990-1993. Featuring short stories from some of the best in the comics industry, this series shocked and entertained fans across the country. - Collects Hellraiser Nos. 3 & 4. BARKER, CLIVE : HAMPTON, SCOTT : SIENKIEWICZ, BILL : (illustrator). Signed by Contributors.…

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 19.69x12.99x1.18 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.