Buy this book on-line PRITTIE, T.C.F & EDWARDS,Capt. W .EARLE: : Escape to FreedomLONDON.HUTCHINSON,1954. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,rpt.VG++/G+.[First published 1946,as 'South to Freedom',and then reprinted 1949,re-published as 'Escape to Freedom' in May,1953,and further reprinted Feb,1954.1st rpt thus.]No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Pictorial illustrated upper wrap+spine/ backstrip with light rubbing and chipping with miniscule loss at all corners and head+foot of spine/backstrip which is also lightly aged/ darkened.Closed tears and nicks to both head+ foot of spine/backstrip,but without affecting lettering to same.Top edges lightly aged/toned and lightly,sporadically foxed,fore-edge less so,therefore brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean.Bright,clean,publisher's original dark green cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip, and b/w map to both front+rear pastedowns with free endpapers minimally foxed and spotted. Described hard but honestly and fairly - reads worse than it actually is! UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-400pp [paginated] includes 38 chapters,21 contemporary photographs/illus (4 illus in colour),8 b/w maps/sketches in the text; plus [unpaginated] b/w contemporary photographic frntis (Oflag VII C LAUFEN,BAVARIA,1940),title page,dedication, foreword,intro by PRITTIE,and illus/maps list/table.
One of the best accounts of escapes written, taking it's place with such classics as 'The Road to Endor','The Escaping Club',and 'Tunnellers of Holtzminden'.
The authors of this book made between them no less than eight remarkable attempts at escape from German prisoner-of-war camps.The courage, ingenuity and resourcefulness revealed in this book are in every way amazing,and the adventures involved in the escapes are so vividly and intimately described that the reader is kept in a perpetual state of excitement and suspense.The most sensational novel seems tame by comparison with this thrilling personal record of fact.
In addition to the stories of the escapes,the book contains the best and most human accounts of life in prisoner-of -war camps in the Second World War that have yet been published.
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