The 21 escapes of Lt Alastair Cram : a compelling story of courage and endurance in the Second World War
Guss, David M.2019
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A Scottish lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa in November 1941. He tried to escape almost immediately - the first of twenty-one daring attempts. Over the course of the Second Word War he passed through twelve POW camps, three Gestapo prisons and one asylum. At last, in April 1945, he was successful, escaping from a POW column in Germany. But it was the escape from Gavi, the 'Italian Colditz', that was the most extraordinary. It was here that Alastair met David Stirling, the founder of the SAS, and here that they cooked up the plan for one of the most audacious but, until now, little-known mass escape attempts of the entire war.
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Author:
Guss, David M., author
Imprint:
London : Pan Books, 2019.
Collation:
432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
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Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781509829590 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.547209920940.5472940.547 CRA940.547209 GUSB CRA
Language:
English
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BRN:
1888010
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