Bits and Pieces

<p>First edition, first impression.  192pp, black and white portrait frontispiece.  Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth just a little pushed at spine tips else neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original glossy dust wrapper, a little rubbed and bumped on extreme edges, very slightly sunned over spine, very slight shelf wear. </p> <p>A semi-autobiographical collection of memoirs, reflections and prose pieces from C J Masterman, author of the excellent mystery thriller, An Oxford Tragedy and its sequel, The Case of Four Friends.  But as well as author and academic, Masterman was, during the Second World War, chairman of the Twenty Committee, which ran the Double-Cross System controlling double agents in Britain.  At the outbreak of the first world war he had been on an academic exchange in Freiburg and as a result spent the war interned as an enemy agent in the Ruhleben Internment Camp.</p>