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Escape from Arnhem : A Glider Pilot's Story by Godfrey Freeman (2010, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPen & Sword Books The Limited

ISBN-101848841477

ISBN-139781848841475

eBay Product ID (ePID)79885800

Product Key Features

Book TitleEscape from Arnhem : a Glider Pilot's Story

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMilitary / World War II, Europe / Great Britain / General, Modern / General, Military / Aviation

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorGodfrey Freeman

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal940.54219218092

SynopsisThis is the remarkable true story of a young army glider pilot's experience of the last days in the defense of Arnhem Bridge, his eventual capture and then escape to be adopted by the Resistance, the hair-raising journey through occupied Europe and his eventual return to the UK. After capture Freeman was first taken to Apeldoorn where he was hospitalized, claiming shell-shock. Although quite sane, he feigned trauma with escape in mind, until being punished for aiding the escape of four Allied inmates. Then he was put on a train bound for Germany, from this he escaped and eventually made contact with the Dutch underground. He is given civilian cloths and a bicycle and rides overnight to Barnveld where he stays with a schoolmaster and church organist. Then another cycle ride to a farm where he sleeps in the hayloft and finally still on his bike, he rides through the German front lines. He eventually is returned to RAF Broadwell by Dakota to resume his part in the war, from capture to freedom within a month. The text is interspersed with flashbacks to the author's childhood and early training, capturing the true spirit of a typical modest and yet outstandingly brave young man of the wartime era.

LC Classification NumberD763.N42