James R. Barton

This is the Finnish cover of James R. Barton's war paperback Shadow over Europe (Badger, early sixties). It may well be the original cover, for all I know - at least it fits the story, which is about an Englishman getting caught in the Poland's conquest in 1939 and fighting bravely against the Nazis (or is the exploding plane a French one?). It's a fast read, but also very black and white: all the Germans are pigs, bastards and maniacs. It's interesting to note that the hero was in Spain in 1936 fighting with the people's front, against the Francoists and Germans.

I said at first that Barton was one of the pseudonyms of very prolific John Glasby, but I checked and it turns out that Barton was "an unknown Badger author". I notice from Hubin that as J.C. Barton there were two crime paperbacks, The Corrupt Ones and The Pay-Off.