| Title:
They Arrived By Moonlight by Captain Jacques Doneux |
| Description: Doneux reveals his six perilous months operating a secret radio-set under the very noses of the Gestapo. He parachuted into enemy-occupied Belgium on a moonlit night in 1943 and lived with danger 24 hours a day. Here he records his adventures, including a 23-hour trek across the Pyrenees. |
| Author:
Captain Jacques Doneux, an Englishman of Belgian descent, was born in London in 1908. He served as an Air Raid Warden from 1939 to 1941 when he joined the Royal Army Service Corps as a Private. A year later he volunteered for duty wih S.O.E. His intimate pre-war knowledge of Belgium and his mastery of the language led to his selection for the mission that he describes so excitingly in this book. |
| Binding:
Hardcover. |
| Date
Published:
First published 1956 |
Edition:
This
edition 2000 |
| Jacket
Condition: Fine condition with black cover with title on spine with pictured dust jacket which is in fine condition. |
| Book
Condition: Fine condition containing 212 pages, all of which is written text. |
| Publisher:
St Ermin’s Press, London. |
| ISBN:
1-903608-00-741 |
| Size
& Weight: 24 cm x 16 cm (H x W). 2.3 cm thick. |
