The Po Valley Break - By Harry Rose-Innes - Signed Copy

Hardcover first published 1976 by Valiant Publishers. The jacket is rubbed and worn in places, with several pieces missing from the edges, and various other small chips and tears. The boards are clean and unmarked, but the spine is slightly cocked, with wrinkling to the covering down the length. There is some foxing to the first and last few pages, but otherwise all are clean and unmarked. "Three patients from a military hospital for prisoners of war at Lucca, Italy, make a daring night escape from a hospital train taking them to a p.o.w. camp in Germany.... Two of the strangers the Italian peasants helped were from South Africa - Harry Rose-Innes of the 5th Battery, 2nd Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Cape Town and 'Taffy' Thomas of the 2nd Battalion, Transvaal Scottish Regiment, Johannesburg - while the third was an American fighter pilot, Frank Huff."