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No Place to Lay My Head – Anthony Richardson’s gripping account of Sasha Nioman, a Byelorussian teenager forced into German service on the Eastern Front, who survived a Soviet massacre and later fought with the Free Polish Army and British Forces. A Sapere Books paperback reissue of the 1957 Odhams Press original, in near fine condition with slight shelf wear.
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No Place to Lay My Head: A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War Two by Anthony Richardson was first published by Odhams Press Limited in 1957. This copy is the undated paperback reissue by Sapere Books of Ilkley, United Kingdom.
No Place to Lay My Head tells the true story of Sasha Nioman, a sixteen-year-old in German-occupied Byelorussia in 1944. After his brother was taken by Communist partisans, Sasha joined the 34th Battalion Field Police, an anti-partisan unit of mixed nationalities under Wehrmacht officers, to protect his family from reprisals. Richardson follows him through atrocities on both sides, including a Soviet massacre of some six hundred men that only a few survived, then to the Western Front, his surrender to the Americans, and his later service with the Free Polish Army and British Forces in Italy. The story was gathered through interviews with Sasha after he settled in Britain.
No Place to Lay My Head is a rare first-hand view of the war in the East from someone caught between two occupying powers, and of the confusing loyalties forced on ordinary people in the borderlands. The back cover carries praise from Otto Heilbrunn, the historian of guerrilla warfare.
Condition – Near Fine
A near fine paperback with only slight shelf wear. The covers are clean and bright with the cover images and lettering crisp, and the spine is in good order. The pages are clean and white throughout. Undated Sapere Books edition.
