Oliver Clutton Brock: 4 books
Survival Against All Odds
Sunday, 8 June 1942: Shot Down Over France
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Born in 1922 in north London and fascinated by a flight in 1938 in one of Sir Alan Cobham’s Flying Circus aircraft, John Misseldine enlisted in the RAF as soon as he turned 18. After training in California in 1941 (in the very first batch of air cadets to be sent there and where he met many Hollywood...
RAF Evaders
The Complete Story of RAF Escapees and their Escape Lines, Western Europe, 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
During the five years from May 1940 to May 1945 several thousand Allied airmen, forced to abandon their aircraft behind enemy lines, evaded capture and reached freedom, by land, sea and air.
The territory held by the Germans was immense – from Norway and Denmark in the north, through Holland,...
The Long Road
Trials and Tribulations of Airmen Prisoners from Stalag Luft VII (Bankau) to Berlin , June 1944 - May 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
This book is firstly a testament to those of many nationalities who found themselves imprisoned at Stalag Luft VII, Bankau (Luft 7 for short) in Upper Silesia, the Luftwaffe’s last prisoner of war camp. Having survived the trauma of action against, and capture by, the enemy, some as far back as...
Footprints on the Sands of Time
RAF Bomber Command Prisoners-of-War in Germany 1939 - 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
This extensive book is divided into two parts. The first, which has eighteen chapters, deals with German POW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command POWs were sent. Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps - capture, escape, illness,...