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

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.