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

By Graham Pitchfork

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2017
ISBN
9781472827210, 9781472827227, 9781472827203
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1790883 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-01 03:39:30
HIS027100HistoryMilitaryNonfiction

Description

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.

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