Free to Fight Again

RAF Escapes and Evasions 1940-45

By: COOPER ALAN

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Hardcover | 20 May 2009

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To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck. To then manage to return to Allied shores inevitably needed considerably more good fortune and often the assistance of local patriots and resistance workers. This book contains the amazing stories of over seventy such escapes, many first-hand accounts. It includes aircrew who found their way to freedom from Europe and places as far away as the Bay of Bengal. These are stories of hi-jacked aircraft, crossing crocodile infested swamps, evasion by camel and coffin, survival in the jungle and brushed with the Gestapo. AUTHOR: Alan Cooper is a well-known aviation historian and researcher. He has previously published The Men Who Breached the Dams, Beyond the Dams to Tirpitz and Bombers over Berlin. He lives in Hailsham, East Sussex. SELLING POINTS: Some of the most amazing RAF Aircrew escapes from captivity in enemy hands. Over 70 different tales. Highly respected author. 100 mono in plates

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Acknowledgements	p. 7
Introduction	p. 8
The Royal Air Forces Escaping Society	p. 13
France	p. 15
Belgium	p. 113
The Netherlands	p. 162
Germany	p. 174
Norway and Denmark	p. 195
Italy	p. 222
Greece	p. 244
Poland and Hungary	p. 257
Yugoslavia	p. 263
The Middle East	p. 271
The Far East and the Pacific	p. 292
Epilogue: The Royal Air Forces Escaping Society	p. 321
Sources and Acknowledgements	p. 329
Index	p. 331
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