Product Description: During the five years from May 1940 to May 1945 several thousand Allied airmen, forced to abandon their aircraft behind enemy lines, evaded capture and reached freedom, by land, sea and air. The territory held by the Germans was immense – from Norway and Denmark in the north, through Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg to the south of France – and initially there was no organization to help the men on the run...read more

Product Description: The first part of this book deals with German PoW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command PoWs were sent. Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps - capture, escape, illness, murder and more - and illustrates the awfulness of captivity even in German hands...read more

Product Description: In July 1944 RAF Bomber Command launched three raids on the railway junction and yards at Revigny-sur-Ornain, in France. Some 41 Lancasters were lost, and 231 airmen perished. Here, for the first time, is the full story of those raids, from the original planning right through to the day the last evading survivor returned to safety 10 harrowing months later...read more