Escape or die : true stories of heroic escapes in the Second World War

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 In this collection of eight true escape stories, Paul Brickhill captures the same spirit of adventure that he gave us in his classic book, THE GREAT ESCAPE. 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. From the story of the Spitfire pilot who was left for dead by an execution squad in Sicily to that of the air gunner who enlisted the help of a prostitute in Stetting to cross the Baltic, every one of these is a classic.