Shot Down and on the Run: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews of WWII

ISBN-13: 9781472827227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 272 str.

Graham Pitchfork

Opis

Thousands of airmen shot down over enemy soil between
1940 and 1945 miraculously escaped capture. This compelling narrative reveals their stories, based on first-hand interviews, photographs and official documents, featuring heroes from Britain, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth
countries. These men knew extreme adversity: hunger, thirst, injury, isolation and the constant fear of capture. They also knew great kindness from the local people who risked everything to help them. Their journeys to safety - often across savage terrain - tested human endurance and ingenuity to the very limit.