01256nam a2200217Ia 4500 OSt 20260223101625.0 210210b1971 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0552090042 AL eng 823.91 WHIL Alan White 256406 Long watch London Corgi Books, Division Of Transworld Publishers Ltd 1971 126p The British patrol's enter a well-guarded French prison, find an old professor, get from him secret chemical knowledge that can help secure victory for the allies. Easier said than done when the countryside is crawling with German soldiers, when the citizens they depend on may be collaborators, when the leader is a private and one of the men he commands is a major and there's no love lost between them. This story opens as the patrol spills out of a farmhouse under fire, and the action and suspense build from to preventing the disloyalty of villagers, to securing a cemetery hide-out in direct sight of the Germans, to scaling the prison walls between guard's rounds, to the final clever act of bravado that gains access to the prison... English Fiction 256407 030091 ddc BK 81284 81284 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2021-02-17 5.00 0 823.91 WHIL 030091 2021-02-17 00:00:00 2021-02-17 BK