CARDIGAN, Earl of [Cedric BRUDENELL-BRUCE, 7th Marquess of Ailesbury]. I Walked Alone. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1950].
8vo. Original buckram with dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. viii, 206; wrapper a little spotted, otherwise near-fine.
First edition. The author was taken prisoner before the evacuation of Dunkirk, and became one of the first British soldiers to escape via Vichy France, the Pyrenees into Spain and finally Gibraltar. This book is based on The Earl of Cadogan' diary written during this hazardous journey.
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