This is a specially produced bookplate created on sepia recycled card measuring approximately 19.5 x 13 cm. It features an original pencil drawing with white highlights by Steve Teasdale. Underneath the portrait is a professionally mounted genuine Pat Reid signature. 
Patrick Robert Reid, MBE, MC (13 November 1910 – 22 May 1990) was a British Army officer and author of history. As a British prisoner of war during the Second World War, he was held captive at Colditz Castle when it was designated Oflag IV-C. Reid was one of the few to escape from Colditz, crossing the border into neutral Switzerland in late 1942.
The bookplate would transform a book on Colditz castle into a highly collectable copy. It would fit most books, including Pat Reid’s own story of Colditz.