Escape and Evasion by Ian Dear
Reminding the reader of escapes by Charles II, Napolean and by Winston Churchill in the Boer War, this volume then describes 18 escapes by Allied troops, German and Japanese and the tortuous, treacherous and traumatic routes to safety through enemy-occupied territory. Stories include the Cockleshell Heroes, the Scarlet Pimpernel and secret routes through Rome, the Vatican Ratlines and the traitors who betrayed the escapers.
Ian Dear is a historian with an unusual background in covert warfare. He spent five years as writer and general editor of The Oxford Companion to the Seco
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854092939 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854092936 |
| Title | Escape and Evasion |
| Author | Ian Dear |
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| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1999-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
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