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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.



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a book of quality … informs, entertains and uplifts the spirits * Royal Air Force Historical Society *
some remarkable stories … a fitting memorial * Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges *

Shot Down and on the Run

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    A Paperback / softback by Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/07/2017
      ISBN13: 9781472827227, 978-1472827227
      ISBN10: 1472827228

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review
      a book of quality … informs, entertains and uplifts the spirits * Royal Air Force Historical Society *
      some remarkable stories … a fitting memorial * Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges *

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