Going to the wars a journey in various directions
"'My brother officers. Are they human?' Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of modern art and literature, who has, almost on a whim, joined a part-time cavalry regiment of the British Army in 1937. At the outbreak...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Paul Dry Books
2019
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| Ausgabe: | First Paul Dry Books edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "'My brother officers. Are they human?' Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of modern art and literature, who has, almost on a whim, joined a part-time cavalry regiment of the British Army in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II two years later, Verney arrives in the Middle East and there learns, almost in spite of himself, to be a soldier. In 1943, he becomes a parachutist and leads a drop into Sardinia to attack German airfields. His adventures there--two weeks wandering through enemy territory, his capture, and his eventual escape--are brilliantly told"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | First published 1955 by Collins |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 215 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 1589881311 1-58988-131-1 9781589881310 978-1-58988-131-0 |