Australia's greatest escapes : gripping tales of wartime bravery
Burgess, Colin, 1947-2020
Book
A collection of stories about the most dangerous aspect of the Australian prisoner of war experience - escape. Here is all the adventure, suspense and courage of ordinary Australians who defied their captors; men who tunnelled to freedom, crawled by night through stinking drains, rappelled down stone walls using knotted bedsheets or clawed a passage beneath barbed wire in a desperate bid to flee their captors. They were willing to risk death in order to overcome almost impossible odds in the loneliest war of all - the fight for the right to be free. And they represent in spades the noble qualities of boldness, resourcefulness, cunning, determination and mateship we have come to know, expect and appreciate about our Australian service men and women under adversity.
Main title:
Australia's greatest escapes : gripping tales of wartime bravery / cColin Burgess.
Author:
Burgess, Colin, 1947-, author
Edition:
Revised edition.
Imprint:
Cammeray, N.S.W. : Simon & Schuster Australia, 2020.
Collation:
xi, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Notes:
First published in Australia in 1994 as 'Freedom or death: Australia's greatest escape stories from two world wars'.Includes index.
ISBN:
97817608542949781760854294 (paperback)
Dewey class:
940.5472
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
655227
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | -History | HISTORY 940.5472 BURG | Available |