Captured; My Experiences as an Ambulance Driver and as a Prisoner of the Nazis
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1942. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 312, illus., Frontis illustrations. Map. DJ worn and soiled: small tears, small pieces missing. The author was an English ambulance driver in an International Red Cross unit in France in 1940. In the confusion of the French troops before the onrushing Panzer divisions, she was captured and imprisoned by the Nazis. Eventually she escaped into unoccupied France and finally returned to England. Derived from a Kirkus review: A courageous and exciting story of a British Red Cross ambulance driver in France. She and another girl were imprisoned by the Nazis as spies at the fall of France and sent to the ill-equipped hospital at Soissons. A French doctor turned stool pigeon and implicated her still further by turning in her diary, and she went to prison, -- no food to speak of, filthy conditions, crowded, a prison shared with individuals named Colette [not the famous one], Schiaparelli [not the famous one] and many other French citizens. Eventually, freedom -- and a difficult escape from France. Good reading, and a new slant. Condition: Good / Fair.
Keywords: WWII, European Theater, POW, Military Medicine, Red Cross, Ambulance Driver, Ambulance Corps, Escape
[Book #8462]
Price: $65.00