Means of Escape - Softcover

Dunmore, Spencer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771029217 ISBN 13: 9780771029219

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 1990

Synopsis

Here is a rare combination of unrelenting suspense and ironic humor, in a fast-paced adventure of a downed English airman and a renegade Wehrmacht officer forced to make common cause in attempting escape from Hitler's collapsing empire.They were an unlikely pair - cockney flight engineer Ron Pollard, shot down behind enemy lines, and the German aristocrat Colonel Carl von Eisner, fleeing the Gestapo after an abortive attempt on his Führer's life. Poles apart in class and temperament, but both bent on escape, they undertake an uneasy masquerade - ridiculous but for the mortal dangers involved - with brash commoner Pollard in the patrician garb of an RAF officer, and Eisner, the sophisticated Aryan, in the Londoner's enlisted man's khaki; a masquerade that must fool murderously patriotic Germans, both soldier and civilian. But a courage Pollard never knew he had, Eisner's cool ingenuity, and a growing mutual regard serve them well, and when they come upon a lightly guarded German Messerschmitt, they are ready for a startling escape attempt in which the life of each is in the hands of the other.Spencer Dunmore has combined an intriguing anatomy of friendship forged in desperation with a high-tension tale of World War II.About the Spencer Dunmore was a schoolboy in Yorkshire, England during World War II and watched bombers limping home to the RAF airfields there. His imagination was fired by this experience to the extent that he became an expert on the war in the air, 1939-1945, and his accounts of the bombers and fighters involved are renowned for their accuracy. Dunmore left Britain for Canada in the mid-50s where he was an advertising executive for many years. Dunmore is now a full-time writer and a private pilot on weekends and resides in Ontario.

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About the Author

Spencer Dunmore’s first foray into non-fiction writing, in 1991, resulted in the critically acclaimed bestseller Reap the Whirlwind: The Untold Story of 6 Group, Canada’s Bomber Force of World War II, which he co-wrote with William Carter, Ph.D. This was followed in 1994 by the equally successful Wings for Victory: The Remarkable Story of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada. Dunmore’s passionate love of flying and of a good story were evident long before, however, in his very popular fiction. His first novel, Bomb Run, was an instant hit, and a string of novels followed, including Tower of Strength, Collision, Final Approach, and No Holds Barred. Squadron, a story collection, is his most recent work of fiction. His works have been translated into many languages and published in more than fifteen countries.

Spencer Dunmore lives in Burlington, Ontario.


From the Hardcover edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771029217
• ISBN 13: 9780771029219
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 216