The Trap

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The Trap by Dan Billany, Hardcover, UK Edition, 2nd Impression (1950). Book in very good condition, in a good dust jacket, with the corner clipped but the price still shown (12s. 6d. net). The book has bumping to the spine ends and a spine lean, with ageing internally and to the page edges. The dust jacket shows wear and ageing, with nicks and tears to the extremities, and a piece missing from the top of the spine. This is understandable for a book of this age. (See pictures). The author was a Prisoner of War of the Germans in World War II, captured in Africa and transferred to a POW Camp in Southern Italy. After the Italian capitulation in September 1943, he was released, and in December of that year was in Mantua. Manuscripts of this book were written in Italian exercise books, and left in the care of a friendly Italian farmer, who sent them to Billany's parents when the war was over. Billany was mortally wounded when trying to end the activities of an informer in the camp, and was buried near Fermo in 1945. The book was considered: 'Almost the only novel about the war of real literary power. written as a prisoner of war. the material is still raw'. N° de ref. del artículo 000758

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