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Product Description: To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. To then manage to return to Allied shores inevitably needed considerably more good fortune and often the assistance of local patriots and resistance workers...read more
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9781844158775 | Pen & Sword, June 30, 2009, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck.
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9781550024838 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, November 20, 2003, cover price $29.99
Product Description: On July 26, 1918, American aviator First Lt. George Puryear shot down a German observation plane and then, in an act of bravado, landed to accept the crew's surrender. In fact, by miscalculation he had landed inside the German lines, and it was the Germans who accepted his surrender...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780890969564 | Texas A & M Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: On July 26, 1918, American aviator First Lt.
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9780275969554 | Praeger Pub Text, August 1, 2000, cover price $138.00
Product Description: 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...read more
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9781854092939 | Arms & Armour, October 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9780312038267 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Recounts the efforts of MIS-X, a top secret U.
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9780312925727 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, August 1, 1992), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A look at the masterminds behind some of World War II's greatest escapes discusses the master counterfeiters and engineers who supplied people in Europe and Asia with false documents, coded messages, hidden radios, compasses, and tools for escape.
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