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Gander, Leonard Marsland.
Long Road To Leros.
Publisher: MacDonald & Co, London;
Date of Publication: 1945
Stock Code: 14469
First edition. Octavo, pp., 215. Plates including frontispiece, as called for, and map within text. Lime green cloth covers with red titles to spine. In Publisher’s illustrated green unclipped dust-jacket. Lacking the front free endpaper, with some light foxing to the text block edges. Dust-jacket suffers from some creasing and associated loss to the edges and spine tips. Leonard Gander, Special Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, in endeavouring to obtain a wartime scoop, found himself the sole representative of the world’s free press on the Greek island of Leros the night before the German Invasion. £40.00