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Format:	Hardback	Publication Year:	1953
Subject:	Auto/Biography	Special Attributes:	--
	Military/War	Language:	English
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Item: POPSKI'S PRIVATE ARMY by VLADIMIR PENIAKOFF.

431 page hardback book (19cm x 12.5cm) published by Reprint Society 1953.

Content: This is a 1953 edition of Popski's Private Army by Vladimir Peniakoff.

Illustrated with photographs & endpaper maps.

Additional information: Lieutenant-Colonel Vladimir Peniakoff DSO MC (30 March 1897 - 15 May 1951), nicknamed "Popski", was the founder and commanding officer of "Popski's Private Army". Vladimir Peniakoff was born in Belgium to Russian parents. In 1914 he studied at Cambridge University and describes his early education in Popski's Private Army: "For years I never had less than three tutors who pumped knowledge into my precocious brain". Vladimir initially had conscientious objections to the Great War but by his fourth term at Cambridge he had changed his mind. Unlike many of his peers, he opted to join the French artillery as a private rather than go through the lengthy training that a commission in the British Army entailed. He was injured during his time in the French Army and was invalided out after the armistice.

In 1924 he emigrated to Egypt where he worked as an Engineer for a sugar manufacturer. Here he married Yvonne ten Bergen and had two daughters, Olga and Anne, born in 1930 and 1932. During this time he learned to sail, fly and navigate vehicles through the desert, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Vladimir Peniakoff was a polyglot who spoke English, Russian, Italian, German, French and Arabic well.

He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on the British Army General List on 4 October 1940, serving in the Libyan Arab Force. He divorced Yvonne and sent the family to South Africa. He was awarded the Military Cross on 26 November 1942, and on 26 April 1945 he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). In 1947 Popski was made a Belgian Officier de l'Ordre de la Couronne avec Palme and awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 avec Palme. He married Pamela Firth on 2 April 1948 (she went on to marry Tom Matthews, former Managing Director of Time magazine, after Popski's death).

Shortly after his best-selling book on Popski's Private Army was published he was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumour and died on 15 May 1951. Pamela Matthews died on 5 December 2005 and is buried beside Popski in Wixoe, Suffolk.

Condition: Hardback excellent condition; very minor shelf-wear top/bottom of spine & corners, minor fading to rear board, very minor handling marks/marks, clean & bright. Pages excellent condition; browning to page faces.

Collectable!!!

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