Buy this book on-line BRICKHILL, PAUL - With a commentary by H. E. Bates and a foreword by Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry.: : ESCAPE -- OR DIE: Authentic Stories of THE R.A.F ESCAPING SOCIETYLONDON.EVANS BROTHERS LIMITED,1952. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo p/back/wraps,Proof copy.Near VG.No owner inscrptn and absence of publisher's price. Publisher's original plain brown paper covers with no external text or details,Covers slightly foxed/spotted and with inevitable but light age-grubbing,a concave spine/backstrip, glue drying/ageing causing shrinking and wrinkling to same.Head+foot with some minimal paper peel and curling,but still attached and in situ - some inevitable and random corner tips dog-eacreasing.Top+fore-edges aged/toned with sporadic foxing/spotting; contents otherwise, clean and tight.UK,8vo p/back/wraps,Proof copy,5-223pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illustrations lists/tables,Foreword by Sir Basil Embry,a commentary by H. E. Bates,8 escape stories/accounts,8 pp contemporary biographical b/w photographs interspersed throughout th book and the text.Plus [unpaginated] lightly foxed/spotted half-title, and a title page with corner tips curled.
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.
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