Escape or Die
Perfect for fans of Damien Lewis' SAS Great Escapes
Published on 5. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-80032-480-0 (ISBN)
Description
Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.
The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is matched only by that of the underground movements and ordinary civilians who helped the escapees in these stories of daring, invention and doggedness against the odds.
From the account of the Spitfire pilot left for dead by an execution squad in Sicily to the story of the air gunner forced to blag his way across the Baltic, every one is an unputdownable classic.
'As long as there are prisons men will try to escape from them; and as long as there is an RAF it will bring to the problems of escape the qualities of high resource, pure cussedness and that indefinable, damnably annoying refusal to lie down when dead, of which all the stories in this book are such excellent - and, I think, such exciting - examples.' H.E. Bates
The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is matched only by that of the underground movements and ordinary civilians who helped the escapees in these stories of daring, invention and doggedness against the odds.
From the account of the Spitfire pilot left for dead by an execution squad in Sicily to the story of the air gunner forced to blag his way across the Baltic, every one is an unputdownable classic.
'As long as there are prisons men will try to escape from them; and as long as there is an RAF it will bring to the problems of escape the qualities of high resource, pure cussedness and that indefinable, damnably annoying refusal to lie down when dead, of which all the stories in this book are such excellent - and, I think, such exciting - examples.' H.E. Bates
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 128 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
226 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80032-480-0 (9781800324800)
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08/2021
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Person
Paul Brickhill was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war and author. The Great Escape was his first book and the first major account of the escape from prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III, bringing the incident to wide public attention. He wrote other best-selling war books including The Dam Busters and Reach for the Sky, the story of Battle of Britain ace Douglas Bader.