The author was a young officer in the Royal Field Artillery in
WWI. He briefly served in Egypt, was transferred to France and
later to Italy. This is an account of day-to-day life at the front
and behind the lines in a mode of warfare not to be seen again
after the Great War.
The tale of Robert Burns, a grandson of the Bard, who sailed to
Singapore in 1846 and worked as a trader in Singapore, Labuan and
along the North-West coast of Borneo. He was the first European to
explore a major river system in the country that is now the East
Malaysian State of Sarawak and which was then controlled by the
Kayan, one of the fiercest tribes of headhunters. He lost his job
as an agent of a Scots-based firm in Singapore. Undaunted, Burns
traded on his own account, but on his last voyage in the schooner
Dolphin, he was murdered by pirates at sea, off the Northern tip
of Borneo.
OPEN ROAD TO FARAWAY : ESCAPES
FROM NAZI POW CAMPS 1941-1945
by Andrew S Winton
The author, from the village of Woolfords near Lanark, was a
student at the Edinburgh College of Art before enlisting with the
RAF. Shot down over Germany in September 1941, he spent the next
four years attempting to escape from Nazi Prisoner of War Camps in
Germany Czechoslovakia and Poland. Following one escape of 17
days, he experienced the horrors of Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
Andrew and his comrades were eventually handed over to the
Americans by the Russians at the River Elbe. After the war he gave
evidence at the Nuremberg Trials.
A first-hand story of WWII escape and evasion. Shot down in a
Halifax bomber over Alsace-Lorraine in 1942, the author and other
crew members, escaped by parachute. Three were soon captured bu
the author, who was wireless operator, and the navigator evaded
capture. With the help of brave French families and the
Resistance, they reached Britain in March, 1943. The book has a
foreword by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC.
Very good in rubbed d/w - 176pp,
15 photos, index.
