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MacINTYRE**, BEN: : COLDITZ: Prisoners of the Castle

LONDON.VIKING/an imprint of PENGUIN BOOKS,2022.

ISBN 9780241408520.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,montage'd contemporary b/w photographs separated horizontally across the centre of front panel of dw/dj by a glossy,red belly-band type strip with capitalised,embossed white-lettered COLDITZ part-title,capitalised, embossed black-lettered PRISONERS OF THE CASTLE sub-title and glossy,capitalised,embossed black-lettered author name and other capitalised red lettering to front,glossy red spine/backstrip with flat printed,capitalised,matt white-lettered COLDITZ partial part-title,capitalised, black-lettered author name and capitalised, white-lettered publisher name to foot of same, rear panel with 22 assorted contemporary thumbnail,b/w portrait photographs of detainees and capitalized red-lettered strap line question.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present,front inner flap of dw/dj with an accidental small vertical fore-edge crease to same.Top+fore-edges clean without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with glossy blocked black inked lettering to spine/backstrip,a red silk headband,and immaculate contemporary montag'd sepia+b/w photographic illustrated sets of endpapers - a mixture of scenic,biographical and documents.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xxiipp [part-paginated]+2-353pp [paginated] includes verso of Contents list/table,4pp Illustrations+ Photo Credits,a List of 4 b/w maps followed by 3 double-page b/w illustrated map+aerial plans with Key; Europe,1937-42,Colditz Castle and environs,Colditz Castle from above,based on a drawing by John Watton,August 1942 and the regional map of the Route taken by Prominente respectively,a Preface,a Prologue,6 Annual sections - 1940-44 - comprising 1,4,4,2,4,3 chapters respectively,an Aftermath,32pp contemporary sepia+b/w photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp74/5,pp138/39,pp202/3 and pp266/67 respectively,an Appendix,a Note on Sources,Acknowledgements and Index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,an epigram [Invictus,William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)], recto of Contents list/table,and to the rear, 8pp blanks.                                       Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness, brightness and lack of detracting faults.                                          In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop deep in Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors - or so the myth of Colditz has been told, unchallenged for seventy years. But that tale contains only part of the truth. The astonishing inside story, revealed here for the first time by bestselling historian Ben Macintyre, is a thrilling tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of class conflict and sexual liaisons,bullying and espionage, insanity and farce.From eminent officers - some of the greatest escapers of all - to their long-suffering orderlies, the prisoners of Colditz Castle created an eccentric world within a hilltop cage, a world apart that was divided over politics, sexuality and race, with a distinct language, theatrical shows and even its own Olympics.                          With access to an unprecedented range of material, Macintyre paints a vivid new picture of the prisoners and their jailers,who lived side-by-side for years inn epic game of cat and mouse.He reveals a remarkable cast of characters,from the unknown Indian doctor who went on hunger strike to the members of the Colditz Bullingdon Club,and from the Anglophile German officer who recreated escape attempts to the Polish housewife,in fact an agent of British Intelligence,whose network smuggled dozens of prisoners to safety.                              Deeply researched and full of incredible stories of heroes who were also human, this is classic Ben Macintyre - and the definitive book on Colditz.                                      Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! 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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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