C R Templer (6 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Jacket. Previous owner's personal bookplate. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Michael Harvey (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine and strips of front and back jacket slightly faded, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 365pp, illustrated. Many of the most famous escapes in history took place during the Second World War. These daring flights from Nazi occupied Europe would never have been possible but for the assistance of a hitherto secret British service: MI9. This small, dedicated and endlessly inventive team gave hope to the men who had fallen into enemy hands, and aid to resistance fighters in occupied territory. It sent money, maps, clothes, compasses, even hacksaws and in return coded letters from the prisoner of war camps and provided invaluable news of what was happening in the enemy s homeland. Understaffed and under resourced, MI9 nonetheless made a terrific contribution to the Allied war effort. As a young subaltern in the Coldstream Guards, James Maydon Langley (1916-83), lost his arm at Dunkirk and was captured but eventually escaped via Lille, Paris, Marseilles, Spain and Gibraltar. He describes the fierce fighting outside Dunkirk, his captivity, escape and extraordinary life in Vichy France, before the Germans controlled it. His fellow escapees and the French who sheltered them make a rich cast of characters. On return to London, Langley is recruited into the Secret Service and told to organise the safe return of allied soldiers, sailors and airmen who had succeeded in either escaping from or evading the Germans. Despite betrayal and infiltration from Germans, collaborators and traitors, over 3000 men were safely brought back to 'fight another day'. Langley and Airey Neave, who joined him after his historic home run from Colditz, had to wrestle with rival secret organisations for resources to carry out their vital work. Langley was portrayed by the actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the 2004 BBC series Dunkirk. Michael Richard Daniell Foot CBE, TD (1919-2012), was a British military historian and former British Army intelligence officer and special operations operative.

Hardcover. Condition: Nr. Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Includes 'Spy Flier' by W.E.Johns. Prize sticker on front paste down. Pages 75-78 torn out (story by Rolf Madden).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback in jacket 1973. 223 pages with 16 black & white illustrations, 2 Maps. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Jacket is not torn but has a little edge wear. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref b44. Field Sports in India 1800-1947 by Major-General James Gordon Elliott. Two chapters on Pig-sticking by Brigadier C. R. Templer. Foreword by Wilson Stephens. Published by Gentry Books.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. Jacket has sunned edges and spine, and light edge wear. Light wear, light foxing to closed edges, else book clean and tight. Size: 8vo.