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I Killed To Live; The Story Of Eric Pleasants

by CHAPMAN Eddie

First Edition

Price: €33.25
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Book description: London: Cassell, 1957 DW is poor with heavy chipping loss to edges and spine ends, book has some foxing which is heavy to the end papers and closed edges, internally better, 223pp + frontis portrait, Pleasants was a sideshow strongman, who was captured with Eddie Chapman while blowing safes in occupied Channel Islands and wound up joining the SS to escape German POW camp, only to be captured by the Russians and sent to a gulag until amnestied after Stalin's death, here Chapman relates the story as Pleasants gave it to him, of his time in the gulag etc.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

  • Bookseller: Fortuna Books NZ (NZ)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 006299
  • Format/binding: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Good
  • Jacket condition: Poor
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Cassell
  • Place: London
  • Date published: 1957
  • Keywords: Second World War Biography Russian POW Camp Criminal True Crime Gulag British SS Volunteer in Russia
  • Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General;

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