Arnhem Lift
( Joseph DELISS, illus. ) HAGEN, Louis
With a Foreword by Lieut. General Sir Frederick A.M. Browning. Illustrated by Joseph Deliss. [Second (First Illustrated) Edition.]
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hammond, [1953]
Stock code: 47674
Price: £68.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) and full-page map in the text, free endpapers and edges faintly spotted; maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in cream, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed tear on rear panel.
This classic account is one of the few by a surviving glider pilot. Hagen flew on the Second Lift and fought right through, escaping by swimming the Rhine on the second Monday. His story was first published in January 1945; this is the first illustrated edition (the illustrator, Deliss, also served at Arnhem). Browning's Foreword appears here for the first time. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.51.