Lean, Wind, Lean

SUBTITLED : ` A Few Times Remembered '. Prior to WWII the author served as aide-de-camp to Lord Tweedsmuir in Ottawa. He may be best known for his 1942 escape from a German P.O.W. camp. Read more about the Goons-up signal. Also : Oflag VII B, Eichstatt station, Yosuf Karsh, Dairsie, maidan, blackcap, Second Battalion, Irish Guards, Jam Hooch, Thomas Rennie, Willa Magee, and Woman's Air Force of Canada. Several of the b/w photographs show his Canadian political connections. Cond : Boards are gray with gilt lettering - spine only. End-papers are white. Clipped d.j. is grey with orange lettering. Portrait of artist on d.j. back. Volume is tight, bright, square, and clean. No names, no marks, no flaws. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 165) : " As luxuries became scarce and vanished, it had to be Jam Hooch, enough of that to have an occasional, say monthly, binge with consequent appalling hangovers. Which brings me to the Australians . They were a rough tough lot, not the most appealing of people when things were good. But when bread was to be measured ._._._. ." Size: Octavo.…