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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. No notes or highlighting. Lovely example of this book. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Sweet is war so might a man say who has not known it after glancing super- ficially through the pages of this book with its tales of thrills and adventures operations regular and irregular and countless episodes of guerilla warfare gun-running secret wireless transmitters and the organising of resistance behind the enemy lines. But closer inspection will lead to intimate knowledge and a realisation that deeds of heroism are only achieved at a price: courage never daunted by recurring disappointments and disasters torture and death such as was meted out to friends and colleagues of the author caught in the Gestapo net in World War II. This is a true story of one man’s war told with flashes of wit and all the zest and joy in living that one would expect from the son of the famous author of The Story of San Michele. Twice wounded mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Military Cross and the Norwegian medal for gallantry Major Munthe tells with compelling modesty the story of his rise from a private in the ranks to an almost unique status in the top secret ranks of those who carried on the struggle within the enemy’s gates whether in Finland Norway North Africa Sicily or Italy. Brought up largely in Capri and Sweden and familiar with half a dozen countries in pre-war Europe he writes with real knowledge and human insight of the nameless heroes of many lands who shared in his tribulations and triumphs. (LL)