Shot Down and on the Run: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews of WWII
- ISBN-10
- 147282721X
- ISBN-13
- 9781472827210
- Series
- Shot Down and On the Run
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-07-27
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Author
- Graham Pitchfork
Description
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.
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