(With an introduction by H.E. Bates)
Here, from the best-selling author of the Great Escape, is eight more true and startling escape stories form the Second World War. 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 enlist the help of a prostitute in Stetting to cross the Baltic, every one of these is a 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