Colditz Seven Page Introduction Patrick Leigh by Patrick Leigh Fermor Miles Reid (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 95pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A narrow strip of light toning to the half-title and to the final index leaf. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the upper edge with a single miniscule area of surface abrasion. Reid's account of his Colditz experiences following capture by the Germans at the Corinth Canal in April 1941. "I first met Miles Reid on a rainy night on board S.S.Franconia in November 1941, when we both set off from Glasgow, he in command of a Phantom Reconnaissance Group and I as a member of the British Military Mission to the Greek Army . Our declared purpose was to advise the Greek Army on mountain warfare and as very few of the Mission had ever seen any, and as the Greeks, who are born mountaineers, were driving the Italians at high speed through the Epirus ranges and very nearly into the Adriatic, our whole undertaking had an unreal, Hunting-of-the-Snark-like feeling" - from Paddy Fermor's introduction.