viii + 184pp, photographs and illustrations. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. This is a very special copy. It includes a loose illustration of the author by John Ward and signed by both. There are 18 veteran signatures to the front endpaper plus the author, a further 3 to the title page plus that of John Ward. The author's story, who joined the RAF at 15, serving as a Wireless Operator / Air Gunner on Lancasters in 49 Squadron at RAF Fiskerton in Lincolnshire, before escaping from his stricken aircraft and spending nearly 18 months as a PoW in Stalag 4B (Mulhberg), Luft 6 (Heydekrug), Stalag 357 (Thorn, Poland) and Fallingbostel prison camps.