TIME AT WAR.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,subject related contemporary sepia photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine. Publisher's original unblemished,burgundy cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate,taupe endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xpp+1- 180pp [paginated] includes foreword,12 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in two blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp38/9 and pp134/5 respectively,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and note about illustrations/photographs used and 2pp blanks at rear. Although Nicholas Mosley has written two volumes of family biography and a volume of memoirs,he has,until now,avoided writing about his World War Two experiences.How does one write about something both horrifying and rewarding? There was also the role played by his tangled relationship with his father.The son of Sir Oswald Mosley,who,as the leader of the British Union Fascists,had been jailed with his second wife,Diana (one of the Mitford sisters) in Brixton jail,early on in the war ostensibly as a security risk,Nicholas was never-the-less dispatched to join his regiment,the Rifle Brigade,as the Allies fought their way up the Italian peninsula.He came of age in the forcing house of war but there was always the question of what would have been his situation had he been captured by the Germans? At one point in the Italian campaign this very nearly happened.How Nicholas got away and survived is an example of how sometimes fact can be more bizarre than fiction. 'TIME AT WAR' is both an absorbing memoir and an intriguing account of a relationship unlike any other in World War Two.How do you live your life as a soldier fighting the Axis powers when your father is the self-proclaimed British fascist leader? The son of Sir Oswald Mosley and his first wife,Lady Cynthia Curzon.After leaving Eton,he served in the Rifle Brigade.He is the author of a dozen novels,including 'Accident' (filmed by Joseph Losey from a Harold Pinter screenplay and starring Dirk Bogarde.),'Hopeful Monsters' (winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year) and,most recently, 'Look at the Dark'.He also wrote the screenplay for Joseph Losey's 'The Assassination of Trotsky' and has written two volumes of family biography and a volume of autobiography.His book 'Impossible Object' (1969),was one of the six nominated and author shortlisted,for the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969 but unfortunately,was not the winner -[See rja28468.].In 1966 he succeeded to the barony of his aunt. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!