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When Freedom Calls: Great Escapes of the Second World War
When Freedom Calls Great Escapes of the Second World War Author:Robert Jackson In one of the eleven adventures Robert Jackson has chosen, the motive was love. — Most of the escapes take place in Occupied Europe or in the Far East and involve Allied soldiers or airmen, but The One That Got Away is the story of the Luftwaffe pilot Franz von Werra who escaped from Canada. — The Big Break-Out, set in Australia, describes one of ... more »the most terrifying mass escapes in history.
One of these stories even involves a man who broke in to another POW camp to escape the tyranny of his own.
All were desperate plans and yet, remarkably, many of them succeeded – including one strategy that involved trading supplies for a wheelbarrow. Wherever the setting and whatever the reasons for the escape, the predominant theme of all the stories is courage -- courage and the determination, when freedom calls, to attempt and often to achieve the impossible. These are tales of hope and triumph, of sorrow and heartbreak. They are stories of desperation and they are stories of brilliance.
When Freedom Calls is a well-researched and detailed collection of some of the most daring escape plans in history.« less