The book of famous escapes
Subtitle: a chronicle of escape in many wars
By: with eighteen first-hand accounts.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
Subjects: Escapes.; Prisoners of war.
Notes: First published in London in 1953 under title: The escapers.
Table of contents: title: Moments of truth; title: The English mission, 1597. John Gerard; title: The inquisition, 1756. Casanova; title: The Napoleonic Wars, 1805-1814. Seacome Ellison ; Donat Henchy O'Brien ; an unknown Frenchman; title: The American Civil War, 1861-1865. James M. Wells; title: The Boer War, 1899-1902. Winston S. Churchill ; Aylmer Haldane; title: The First World War, 1914-1918. H. A. Cartwright ; R. S. Gwatkin-Williams ; M. A. B. Johnston and K. D. Yearsley; title: The Second World War, 1939-1945 ; T. C. F. Prittie ; Roy Farran ; Robert Kee ; F. Spencer Chapman ; James Hargest ; William L. Newnan ; Geroge Millar.