New Releases by Paul Brickhill

Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage. Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War. The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is matched only by that of the underground movements and ordinary civilians who helped the escapees in these stories of daring, invention and doggedness against the odds. From the account of the Spitfire pilot left for dead by an execution squad in Sicily to the story of the air gunner forced to blag his way across the Baltic, every one is an unputdownable classic. ‘As long as there are prisons men will try to escape from them; and as long as there is an RAF it will bring to the problems of escape the qualities of high resource, pure cussedness and that indefinable, damnably annoying refusal to lie down when dead, of which all the stories in this book are such excellent - and, I think, such exciting - examples.’ H.E. Bates

"Famous true stories of the Second World War. The great escape: One of the most famous true stories, The great escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinarily daring break-out. Made famous by the Hollywood film of the same name, this book is the original story. White rabbit: 'The White Rabbit' was the code name of Wing Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas when he parachuted into France in 1942 as a member of the Special Operations Executive. For the next eighteen months he was responsible for organising all the separate factions of the French Resistance into one combined 'secret army.' His capture by the Gestapo in March 1944 was a terrible blow for the Resistance movement. The story of his endurance, and his survival against all the odds, is an inspiring study int he triumph of the human spirit over the most terrible adversity"--Page [3] of jacket.

An account of the escape of almost one hundred British prisoners of war from a German prison camp in 1944.

Paris, 1961, Robert Mackay, a tourist, saunters up to the bar of a Left Bank care, orders a drink, eyes a pretty girl ... A shot is fired, then two more. A man falls dead next to Mackay.