Shot Down and on the Run : True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews of WWII

Pitchfork, Graham

Osprey Publishing（2017/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781472827227
• DDC分類 940.544

Full Description

First hand accounts of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down and forced to flee enemy forces.

Thousands of airmen shot down over enemy soil between 1940 and 1945 miraculously escaped capture. This compelling narrative reveals their stories, based on first-hand interviews, photographs and official documents, featuring heroes from Britain, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries.

These men knew extreme adversity: hunger, thirst, injury, isolation and the constant fear of capture. They also knew great kindness from the local people who risked everything to help them. Their journeys to safety - often across savage terrain - tested human endurance and ingenuity to the very limit.

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations

Part One: The Escape and Evasion Organization
1 Evasion
2 The MI 9 Organization
3 Preventive Training
4 Escape Aids

Part Two: North-West Europe
5 Introduction
6 France and Belgium
7 Holland
8 Scandinavia

Part Three: The Middle East and Mediterranean
9 Introduction
10 The Western Desert
11 Greece
12 Italy
13 Poland

Part Four: The Far East
14 Introduction
15 Environment and Training
16 Burma
17 South-East Asia
Epilogue

Appendix
Bibliography
Author's Acknowledgements
Index