Squadron Leader Arct (24 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

(Subject: World War II - Western Europe) Squadron Leader Arct spent the last months of WWII from Sept 1944 as a POW in Stalag Luft 1. During that time he compiled a secret diary describing many aspects of POW life, supplemented by watercolour caricatures and cartoons. This book reproduces in facsimile the handwritten text and the illustrations. A unique first-hand account of life in a WWII prison camp. (Published: 1988) (Publisher: Webb & Bower Publishers) (ISBN: 0863502296) (Pagination: 150pp, numerous ills, cartoons etc in colour) (Condition: good in faded d/w ) UL-XXXXXX.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition, large 8vo, 153pp, colour photo reproductions of line illustrations, page by page direct from the diary; a previous owner has over-zealously snipped off the upper corner of ffep presumably to remove an incriminating inscription which is a shame because this is o/w VG+ Copy in VG+ DJ Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

1st ed. Condition: fine/fine. 1st Pen & Sword Books Ltd 1988 hardcover fine condition book in fine condition price clipped dw owners name inside In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 153p. Luft Stalag I Germany 1944-45. photographic repros of his diary. In mylar. Fine/Fine copy.

H/B cream cloth bds, Fine, in Near Fine D/W, a little furling at top edge, spine sl. faded, contents seem unread, text in hand-written style. In 1944 the author spent 8 months until the end of the war, in a German prison camp. During this time he compiled a secret diary of his own experiences and feelings and those of his fellow inmates.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good +. First Edition. 151 pages. Striking colour illustrations throughout. Very clean dark maroon background dustjacket with light/moderate wear to dustjacket's corners and edges. Very clean beige hardback binding with light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Very clean pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> The majority of Bohdan Arct's works are factual accounts of the Second World War written to explain the Polish contribution to the Allied effort. They are illustrated with photographs and the proceeds in large part went to organizations for Polish airmen. This journal on the other hand was put together by Arct purely to amuse his fellow inmates and to provide release and relaxation for himself. Materials were scarce - witness the grev cardboard used in the centre section, spare time was precious, Arct was often exhausted by hunger, and the journal was at all times under threat of confiscation by the guards. Nevertheless, in nine months, he managed to invent and illustrate something which, forty-five years later, still has the power to entertain and arrest Arct took his "Log Book" with him when he left the camp and kept it with other mementoes of his war experiences, including an extensive diary in Polish covering the whole six years. But there was no thought of publishing it - for several reasons. Firstly.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Prisoner of War. My Secret Journal. By Squadron Leader B. Arct Stalag Luft 1, Germany 1944-45. Hard covers with dust jacket and both are in very good condition. 1st Edition 1988.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Some minor foxing to reverse of dust jacket. 153 pages. No internal inscriptions, torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Germany; 1944-45; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0863502296. ISBN/EAN: 9780863502293. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52575. …

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine (small, closed tear top edge) dust jacket (in mylar).

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Thus. This new copy is bound in illustrated laminated boards, A dust wrapper is not called for. The text block is unmarked, tight, white, bright and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This hand-written chronicle provides a fascinating sidelight on World War Two. A unique first-hand account of life in a Second World War prison camp. Original hand written text and watercolour illustrations, reproduced in facsimile. A story told with compelling honesty, humour and compassion. Ref HHH 2. Squadron Leader Bohdan Arct (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. Type: Book.

Special Edition. Hardback no dust wrapper. Life In A World War II Prison Camp. Prisoner of War. Stalag Luft 1, Germany 1944-45. Washable boards. Colour illustrations. Very good+ copy. Approx. 138 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. ix, 152pp; illustrated; 240 x 175mm.

Condition: Very Good. A large crease on first blank page. Also some minor shelf wear on cover. Content is fine.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 151pp., colour & b/w illusts., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Fascinating document with author's Camp illustrations. With ownership inscription of a former POW with his Regimental number & his POW number. Also tipped-in post-it notes with details of Red Cross parcels in Camp etc.…

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 151pp., colour & b/w illusts., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Fascinating document with author's Camp illustrations. Owner's bookplate o/w nice copy.

1st edition dust jacket As New octavo 151pp., colour & b/w illusts., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Fascinating document with author's Camp illustrations.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 151pp., colour & b/w illusts., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Fascinating document with author's Camp illustrations. With ownership inscription of a former POW with his Regimental number & his POW number. Also tipped-in post-it notes with details of Red Cross parcels in Camp etc.…

76 unnumbered pages (pagination count per OCLC). Hardcover: H 27.25cm x L 20.25cm. Paper covered boards toned and soiled; color illustration decorating front board; scuffing wear at spine ends and at board edges. Toning to endpapers; some scattered light soiling to interior pages which are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Two page introduction along with numerous b/w cartoon illustrations recording WWII prisoner-of-war life in Stalag Luft I, a German camp near Barth, Western Pomerania, Germany. Cartoons are credited to Flight Sergeant Budgen and Squadron Leader B. Arct. No publication date specified but certainly postwar presumably 1946-1950.…