The Two Jacks: The Amazing Adventures of Major Jack Veness and Major Jack Fairweather. As told to Will R. Bird.

Publisher: William Kimber, London, 1955, second edition, same year as first.

Good hardback with jacket. Boards are marked rubbed, bumped and faded. Binding firm, small piece of tippex inside front board, light foxing to pages. Jacket is marked, faded, chipped, rubbed and torn with some loss to top edge. 205 pages, illustrated.

As platoon commanders in their old regiments, the two Jacks took part in the grim fighting in Holland that cleared the path to the Rhine. In the teeth of bursting shell and raking machine fire they battled their way into enemy positions in town and forest, and on hazardous night patrols took many prisoners. Veness proudly captured a German general. Within four months both had been promoted to captain and then to major; Fairweather becoming the youngest major in the Canadian army. Both were mentioned in dispatches. Both received head wounds, but evaded orders that would have sent them back to base hospital. Veness was the first Canadian fighting man to enter Germany, when he was sent with his platoon to relieve two companies of an American airborne division straddling the border in the Nijmegan area. In the furious fighting which cleared Bienen of the Germans, Fairweather led his company with distinction. Then Veness received multiple shrapnel wounds at Emmerich, and spent four and a half months in hospital in England. Fairweather continued with the regiment in its advance into Germany.

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