Carve her Name with Pride
( SOE ) ( SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE ) ( Violette SZABO ) MINNEY, R. J.
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: George Newnes, [1956]
Stock code: 46045
Price: £160.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates, full-page map and full-page plan in the text, and endpaper maps, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; green cloth, gilt back, red top, inoffensive tape scars on paste-downs else a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
The classic, well-illustrated account of SOE agent Violette Szabo, the only woman agent to be awarded the George Cross during WWII. This book forms the basis of Lewis Gilbert's classic feature film (1958) starring Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield and Jack Warner. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.399; Foot, p.460.