Appointment in Crete. The Story of a British Agent.

FIRST EDITION, pp. 240, crown 8vo, original maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly pushed at ends, bottom corners likewise, a faint scuff at foot of upper board, a few faint spots to edges, free endpapers browned, map to verso of flyleaf, dustjacket with an excellent design by John Craxton, a little nicked, chipped, rubbed and creased at extremities, rear panel lightly spotted, good. The author, educated at Rugby School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was an S.O.E. agent in Crete during the Second World War - where he served alongside Patrick Leigh Fermor and W. Stanley Moss, both of whom are mentioned recurrently in his account.