The cooler king
Subtitle: the true story of William Ash : spitfire pilot, POW and WWII's greatest escaper
By: Patrick Bishop
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781782390220; 9781782390251; 9781782390244
Subjects: Prisoner-of-war escapes; World War, 1939-1945; German Prisoners and prisons
Description: The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war defying the Nazis by striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp in which he was incarcerated.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.