A TALENT FOR ADVENTURE : The Remarkable Wartime Exploits of Lt Col Pat Spooner MBE.

Pat Spooner

ISBN 10: 1848848102 / ISBN 13: 9781848848108

Published by Pen and Sword Military, Barnsley, 2012

About this Item

This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black buckram covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. Laid in is a cutting from the Surrey Advertiser (6 July 2012) profiling the author. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Books on prison camps, daring escapes and life with the Resistance abound. Pat Spooner's story is different and more compelling in one important respect. It recounts the gripping and dramatic rescue of two senior British generals (one a VC) and an air vice marshal from occupied Italy by the author and his companion who had themselves both escaped from an Italian PoW camp.This book covers a range of wartime exploits from operating behind Japanese lines in Burma and Malaya to laying secret dumps on remote islands in the Bay of Bengal for the benefit of RAF aircrew unable to reach their base. At the war's end, Pat Spooner, a 25-year-old lieutenant colonel, commanded a war crimes investigation unit in Java and Burma. He describes his personal experiences of the intensive efforts to track down and bring to justice the perpetrators of some of the foulest crimes ever committed by Man. Then, as a senior staff officer (Assistant Adjutant General) he spent a further twelve months controlling the nerve centre, in Singapore, of the entire war crimes organization in Southeast Asia involving 18 investigation units. Ref A7 2.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A TALENT FOR ADVENTURE : The Remarkable Wartime Exploits of Lt Col Pat Spooner MBE.
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Military, Barnsley
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848848102
• ISBN 13: 9781848848108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

Books on prison camps, daring escapes and life with the Resistance abound. Pat Spooner’s story is different and more compelling in one important respect. It recounts the gripping and dramatic rescue of two senior British generals (one a VC) and an air vice marshal from occupied Italy by the author and his companion who had themselves both escaped from an Italian PoW camp.

This book covers a range of wartime exploits from operating behind Japanese lines in Burma and Malaya to laying secret dumps on remote islands in the Bay of Bengal for the benefit of RAF aircrew unable to reach their base.

At the war’s end, Pat Spooner, a 25-year-old lieutenant colonel, commanded a war crimes investigation unit in Java and Burma. He describes his personal experiences of the intensive efforts to track down and bring to justice the perpetrators of some of the foulest crimes ever committed by Man. Then, as a senior staff officer (Assistant Adjutant General) he spent a further twelve months controlling the nerve center, in Singapore, of the entire war crimes organization in Southeast Asia involving 18 investigation units.

About the Author

Pat Spooner is an author and historian.