RAF Evaders : The Comprehensive Story of Thousands of Escapers and Their Escape Lines, Western Europe, 1940-1945

1st ed. thus dust jacket As New 8vo. xxxiii + 494pp., b/w plates, maps, notes, appends., bibliog., index, During the five years from May 1940 to May 1945 several thousand Allied airmen, forced to abandon their aircraft behind enemy lines, evaded capture & reached freedom, by land, sea and air. Author has researched this secret world of evasion, uncovering some treachery & many hitherto unpublished details, operations and photos. It is a tremendous reference work, written in his own colourful style with numerous anecdotes, which fills a gap of knowledge formerly unavailable to historians.