Cooper Ex Sergeant a R (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 288 pp, portrait frontis, illustrated, all 16 plates present, bound in green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, sl crease bottom of 1 page.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

12mo. ix, [3], 277, [1] pp., plus 26 pp. publisher's catalogue w/ author index. Orange publisher's cloth, tan lettering & ruling front cover & spine (slight lean, minor foxing to fore-edges of textblock), w/ d.j. (minor creasing & edgewear head of spine, 1 small closed tear), still a VG/VG copy. First Australian edition of this fascinating memoir of the memoir published simultaneously by Jarrolds in the UK as "The Man Who Liked Hell" who joined the French Foreign Legion at the age of 15 1/2 in 1914 under the name Cornelis Jean de Bruin, fought at the Battle of Gallipoli, and was one of two of 1000 men in the battalion left standing at the end of the battle, winning the Croix de Guerre. Cooper (b. 1899) later was imprisoned as a deserter in Sidi Bel Abbes, served in the brutal Penal Battalion, and was twice court-martialed while fighting in Morocco and throughout the Riff War. He later served as a British secret agent in World War II, and various other campaigns. Scarce in original dustjacket. …