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From Timaru to Stalag VIII B : a New Zealand pilot's wartime story / Jack Hardie.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wellington, N.Z. : Steele Roberts, 2009Edition: Revised and enlarged editionDescription: 151 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1877448753
  • 9781877448751
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.548193 22
LOC classification:
  • TL540.H25356 A3 2009
Contents:
AC2 to sergeant pilot -- On active service -- "Ferr you der vorr iss oafer" -- Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf -- March -- "The Yanks are here" -- Homeward bound -- Appendix : Jim McQueen's story.
Summary: "Born in Timaru in 1919, Jack [Hardie] trained as a bomber pilot in New Zealand and England during the early stages of World War II. After being shot down over Holland, he soon found himself a POW at the notorious Stalag VIII B, where airmen were shackled on Hitler's orders as retribution for the damage they had inflicted on Germany. This book tells Jack's dramatic and inspiring story..."--Back cover.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 940.548193 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A472265B

Previous ed. published with title: From Timaru to Stalag VIIIB: Motueka N.Z. : J.D. Hardie, 1991.

Cover subtitle: A Kiwi airman's wartime story.

AC2 to sergeant pilot -- On active service -- "Ferr you der vorr iss oafer" -- Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf -- March -- "The Yanks are here" -- Homeward bound -- Appendix : Jim McQueen's story.

"Born in Timaru in 1919, Jack [Hardie] trained as a bomber pilot in New Zealand and England during the early stages of World War II. After being shot down over Holland, he soon found himself a POW at the notorious Stalag VIII B, where airmen were shackled on Hitler's orders as retribution for the damage they had inflicted on Germany. This book tells Jack's dramatic and inspiring story..."--Back cover.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.

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