Stalag Luft III
DURAND, Arthur A.
The Secret Story.
Published: Patrick Stephens Wellingborough, [1989]
Stock code: 13255
Price: £16.00
8vo., First UK Edition, with photographs and diagrams in the text; cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
First published in the US in 1988, this is a detailed and comprehensive account of life in the POW camp of 'The Great Escape'. It is based largely on a coded history kept secretly by the prisoners and smuggled out during the evacuation of 1945. The UK edition is already uncommon in this condition.