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- PublisherIbooks
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0953173739
- ISBN 13 9780953173730
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages307
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Student to Stalag
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POD Publishing - A POD Book, Winborne, Dorset, England, 1999
ISBN 10: 0953173739
ISBN 13: 9780953173730
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Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Stobs-Steobart,, Christopher - Cover Design (illustrator). At the outbreak of WW11, in September 1939, Robin Thomas, approaching his 18th birthday, decides he wants to fight his war. This is his autobiography written almost 50 years later. He joined the RAF and was trained as a navigator. After many months of training in England and Canada he started flying combat missions - at a time when the famous Mosquito Bomber came into service. Shot down over the Dutch city of Utrecht, surviving a parachute drop from 26.000 ft. he spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft 3, the camp from which The Great Escape took place. A mass escape by tunnel that resulted in a massacre, on Hitler's orders, of many of the recaptured officers. The author, a Hampshire man from Portsmouth, was awarded the D.F.C. for his services to King and Country. This fascinating story of the events that carried him from student to stalag is told with humour, making light of the suffering and hardship he and his fellow prisoners had to endure. Contents: September 1939, War Damage Commission, Reception and I. T. W. On the Atlantic, Port Albert Ontario, Air Navigation School, Into the Air, Picton, Bombs and Guns, Halifax and Montreal, Gander Newfoundland, Over the Atlantic, OTU Upwood, 105 Squadron, Swanton Morley, Horsham St. Faith's Mosquitoes, Contact with the Army, The Navy etc, My Car, Operations, Attack of Gremlins, Shot down - First time, Gas Holder and Gas Masks, Utrecht Oct 11th 1942, Now a Kreigie Preliminaries, By Train - 4th Class, New Compound, The Theatre, Tin Bashing, Escaping, Day by Day, Good-bye Luft 3, Hallo Marlag-Milag Nord, and Stalag to Student. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Seller Inventory # 16550
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STUDENT TO STALAG
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POD Publishing, WImborne, 1999
ISBN 10: 0953173739
ISBN 13: 9780953173730
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Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. This copy has been read and has a slight 'lean' so best described as near fine condition, bright, white and tight in illustrated card covers as issued. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. At the tender age of eighteen Robin Thomas, like so many of his peers, faced the prospect of war with Germany with a mixture of determination, dread and even a little excitement, but how best could he serve his country in its time of need? Having lived all his life in Portsmouth, a city with centuries old naval traditions and association with generations of seafarers, it was logical that his first steps to joining up were directed in that quarter. But more by accident than design he found himself in the RAF. After many months of training to be a Navigator, in England and Canada, he finally joined the active war machine -- at a time when the famous Mosquito Bomber came into service. Three years after the outbreak of war his plane was shot down twenty-six thousand feet above the Dutch city of Utrecht. He and his pilot managed to bail out, at a height that was considered likely, without an oxygen supply, to cause death by asphyxiation. But survive they did and Robin spent the next two and a half years as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft 3, the camp made famous by the book and film of 'The Great Escape' -- and the horrific massacre, on Hitler's personal orders, of fifty of the prisoners that were recaptured after a mass breakout through a tunnel dug beneath the perimeter fence. Robin Thomas, Portsmouth born, bred and living in retirement, was awarded the DFC for his service to King and Country. He recounts the events that took him from Student to Stalag in a humorous style, making light of the suffering and hardship that war brings to the lives of those involved. Ref K5. Seller Inventory # 022715
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Student to Stalag
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Near Fine. Name & date inside front cover, with some ink offset to the opposaite page. Tip of one page creased. Tiny dot on top edge. Seller Inventory # 218409
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Student to Stalag
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Student to Stalag This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 7719-9780953173730
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Seller Inventory # 6545-9780953173730
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