Escape or Die
Perfect for fans of Damien Lewis' SAS Great Escapes
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $5.99
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Publisher Description
Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.
Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.
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
Customer Reviews
Escape or Die (but don’t use racist language)
I was gratified to read at the beginning of the book, a paragraph indicating that the original text had been preserved, despite some objectionable terms and descriptions, in the interest of accuracy and maintaining the books original integrity. I was subsequently disappointed to discover that this was not the case. I’m still old enough to remember reading the original text, and words and phrases of historical significance have been sterilized by the editors - likely with the intent of avoiding offending anyone. I am forced to wonder what the men depicted in this book - most of whom are long dead - would think about that. It seems that in our ‘Free World’ that they served to defend against the tyranny of Fascism and Militarism, our literary words live under the tyranny of political correctness…