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Hardcover, black cloth in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 251pp., Illustrated with phtographs, line drawings and maps. First English edition, first printing. Translated from the Dutch by Adrienne Dixon. The autobiography of a Dutch youth who “joined the German navy in a spirit of bravado, only to find himself trapped in the final, agonising throes of Germany’s defeat.” Subsequent tours in the French Foreign Legion and Korea led from his being a devotee of war to a confirmed pacifist. A fancnating life told with honesty and passion. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, crisp, unread copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket.