Hit or Miss : Being the Adventures of Driver Randle Barlow

2nd impression. 224pp. In red cloth-covered boards, with gilt lettering to spine (boards a little worn at edges), some minor flecking on text block edges only. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a previous owner’s name on slightly toned endpapers. In Escape to Nowhere, Jones recounted his own adventures on the run in Italy and Greece during the second world war. But there were two men involved in those adventures, and this volume tells the story of his friend, Randle Barlow, from whom he was separated when Barlow, despite a series leg wound, jumped off a train bound for a prisoner of war camp. The story of two ordinary urban young Englishmen fighting the ranks during the war.