Calton Younger NO FLIGHT FROM THE CAGE Multi Signed Hardback
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Calton Younger NO FLIGHT FROM THE CAGE Multi Signed Hardback
Revised and expanded edition hardback of NO FLIGHT FROM THE CAGE by Calton Younger and published by Fighting High Ltd in 2013. Originally published by Frederick Muller in 1956. Signed by Younger on the title page and by 7 veterans on the half title page. Signatures are those of: Air Commodore Charles Clarke of 619 Squadron who was a POW at Stalag Luft 3 and acted as a watcher for those prisoners constructing tunnels in preparation for the Great Escape; Reg Wilson of 102 Squadron; Sgt Ted Cachart of 49 Squadron; David Fraser, a rear gunner with 115 Squadron who was also a POW at Stalag Luft 3; Warrant Officer John Banfield of 207 Squadron; Bob Ankerson, navigator with 17 Squadron during the first Gulf War and spent 40 days as a POW in Baghdad; and Dick Vernon of 83 Squadron, who along with Air Commodore Clarke, is mentioned in the book.The book is in near fine condition (blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with no significant wear. The book is in a near fine unclipped dust jacket which has just a bit of rubbing in a couple of places. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
No Flight From The Cage is the extraordinary story a Second World War Bomber Command airman who was shot down in May 1942, spent three years behind barbed wire, and endured forced marches as the Nazi state crumbled. Cal Younger also recounts his adventures on the run in France prior to capture and his return, in 1949, to search for the people who helped him. In sensitive, gripping, yet often humorous prose, Younger describes the toils and deprivations of prison camp life. There are the extraordinary characters, there is the brutality Cal witnesses. At Stalag Luft VI, an escape campaign, ruthlessly carried out, ends with the suicide and execution of guards and prisoners. Then there is the amusing but dangerous brinksmanship of Hun-baiting. This revised edition incorporates previously unpublished photographs along with numerous illustrations and cartoons depicting camp life, as sketched by the author while a prisoner-of-war. No Flight From The Cage has become one of the classic prisoner-of-war memoirs.
240 pages including previously unpublished illustrations and Indices.
ISBN: 9780957116351
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