We Die Alone
( Jan BAALSRUD ) HOWARTH, David
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Collins, [1955]
Stock code: 48189
Price: £124.00
8vo., First Edition, with plates, tiny contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; back cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at head and tail of backstrip.
Dustwrapper artwork by Kenneth Farnhill. The story of Jan Baalsrud, one of a team of Norwegian saboteurs attacking a German aircraft base in Arctic Norway. Intercepted by the enemy, Baalsrud was the sole survivor of the party, left alone on an arctic island with the Germans alerted to his presence. Howarth's account of Baalsrud's multi-faceted escape is the basis of Arne Skouen's feature film 'Nine Lives' (1957). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.299; Law 0892.