The Secret World of Escape and Evasion
"Gives a panoramic view to the many-sided
story of Italy after the Armistice in 1943." --- Cav. Uff. J Keith
Killby, OBE, founder The Monte San Martino Trust
The fugitives were thousands of prisoners of war or downed aircrew
from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa,
the United States and European countries occupied by Germany.
Many of these Allied servicemen succeeded in escaping to Switzerland
or through the enemy lines. The alternative was a trip to the camps
in Germany in sealed railway cattle trucks ...
The true stories and personal accounts include:
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