POW Books About WWI and WWII Escape & Evasion

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ASSISTED PASSAGE: Walking to Freedom Italy 1943
Product Code: 8155

True story of a DLI officer’s escape from captivity in Italy in 1943. An exciting account of escape and evasion.

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COLDITZ STORY
Product Code: 11181

A classic true escape story. Pat Reid, appointed Escape Officer in the alllegedly escape-proof Colditz Castle; tired of approving the efforts of others and resolved to make his own breakout. This is what happened...

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DOWN IN THE DRINK
Product Code: 12233

Nine astonishing true stories of RAF aircrew who survived being shot down ‘in the drink’.

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ESCAPE OR DIE: True Stories of Heroic Escapes
Product Code: 10164

Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight more true and startling escape stories from the Second World War, every one of these is a classic.

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GREAT ESCAPE
Product Code: 11239

The truth behind Hollywood’s famous film of the mass breakout from a German airmen’s POW camp that ended in the cold-blooded murder of fifty of the escapers. This is the classic World War II POW escape story

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GREAT ESCAPES
Product Code: 12460

An anthology of the most exciting escape attempts from German PoW captivity in the Second World War, this book contains old favourites such as the Wooden Horse and the Colditz glider - and less familiar breakouts.

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IN PRESENCE OF MY FOES A memoir of Calais, Colditz, & Wartime Escape Adventures
Product Code: 23578

A fascinating escape memoir by a British officer who was wounded and captured at Calais in 1940; escaped and hid for nine months with the Polish Underground; and finally escaped from Colditz - only to be caught again.

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IN RUHLEBEN
Product Code: 8708

Life in a civilian internment camp for British internees in Germany. Based on letters home from one of the internees and on the camp journal.

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IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY: Being the experiences of a prisoner of war
Product Code: 11069

A fascinating memoir of POW captivity in Germany early in the Great War, written by a Coldstream Guards chaplain captured at the battle of Landrecies in August 1914, but eventually repatriated in 1915. Charmingly illustrated with the author’s own drawings.

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LATTER DAYS AT COLDITZ
Product Code: 11180

The story of the men author Pat Reid left behind in Colditz castle after his own successful escape in 1942. Despite ever tighter German vigilance, men still tried to fake, tunnel or even fly their way out of the grim fortress.

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