Airmen on the Run: True Stories of Evasion and Escape

by Laurence Meynell

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, A very good near fine copy in pale blue cloth boards, gilt title on spine with a good/very good, price-clipped dust jacket. True stories of evasion and escape by British airmen of World War II told by LAURENCE MEYNELL. ILLUSTRATED BY RICHARD KENNEDY - a nice copy.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1963

About the author

Born in 1899, in Wolverhampton, Laurence Walter Meynell was the son of Herbert Meynell, chairman of Meynell and Sons Ltd., and his wife Agnes. He was educated at St. Edmund's College in Ware, Hertfordshire, and served in the artillery in WWI. He worked for an estate agency, and as a teacher, before his first novel, Mockbeggar, won a competition run by the publishers Harrap in 1924, and he turned to writing as a career. Meynell also worked as an editor, beginning in the 1950s, for the Bodley Head, and for Time and Tide. He was married twice, to novelist Shirley Darbyshire, and to Joan Belfrage, and had one daughter. He died in 1989.

Meynell is primarily remembered for his crime fiction, much of it published under his own name, but he also published children's fiction under the pseudonyms A. Stephen Tring and Valerie Baxter. He also used the pseudonyms Robert Eton and Geoffrey Ludlow.