Minus the man from Cook's
Subtitle: record of an escape from wartime Britain
By: by John Macadam ....
Publisher: Jarrolds (London) Limited
Published: 1944
Place of publication: London; New York [etc]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, English.
First sentence: It was odd to look out through the misted windwon the departure room at the Dakota tilted out there on the airfield and consider that that was all there would be between us and these piled-up banks of solid cloud......the shark-infested waters of the Bay of Biscay, the possible attention  of long-ranged Focker Wulfs...
Description: Precisely what the title indicates - a wartime travel tour. An account of  war correspondets  in N. Africa, Sicily and Italy by their accompanying RAF Observer. They meet svereal of the leading figures in this theatre: Air Marshall Tedder and General Montgomery. The learn about the action on the various fronts, occasionally accompanied by Mike the Mystery man, an RAF Officer who frequently disappeared behind the liones to gather information.