I Was a Stranger

1st American Edition. 220pp. Brown cloth-covered boards (sharp, bright, solid). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (small bump on lower edge). Dust jacket supplied in archival-quality mylar wrapper which protects and extends the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the dust jacket. I Was a Stranger may be called a war book. It begins with one of the second world war's most tragic battles and ends with an escape. But General Sir John Hackett's book is not of war, but of love - a moving story of steadfastness and devotion to duty. Recollections by Brigadier-General Sir John Winthrop Hackett, an Australian-born British Officer. In 1944 he raised and commanded the 4th Parachutist Brigade, assisting the Allies in their assault on Arnhem (better known as operation Market Garden) in September 1944. Severely wounded, Hackett was captured by the Germans and then operated on in St. Elizabeth Hospital, Arnhem. After his recovery he managed to escape with help of the dutch underground movement. Hackett took his final convalescence in hiding, with a dutch family before escaping to the liberated part of the Southern Netherlands.