Ebook: The freedom trails: escaping Hitler
Author: Halls Monty
- Tags: Escaped prisoners of war, Escaped prisoners of war--Europe, Prisoner-of-war escapes, Prisoner-of-war escapes--Europe, Underground movements War, World War 1939-1945--Underground movements--Europe, World War 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Europe, Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Europe, Escaped prisoners of war -- Europe, Europe
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK
- City: Europe
- Language: English
- epub
Some of the great untold stories of the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the highly dangerous escape routes out of Nazi Occupied Europe. Over 5,000 British, Commonwealth and American servicemen made the journey over the Pyrenees, the Slovenian mountains and the Italian alps. Many also died en route, killed by the perilous conditions or caught by the German army. It was just as dangerous for the brave men and women of the resistance who kept the routes open.
The Freedom Trails includes the stories of the most charismatic figures of the Second World War, men like Blondie Haslar, leader of the Cockleshell Heroes, US airman Chuck Yaeger (whose story was immortalised in The Right Stuff) and Australian Ralph Churches who orchestrated the mass escape of 100 POWs from Slovenia. There are heroes like Andree de Jongh, a young woman in her twenties who risked her life to smuggle men through occupied France, survived being sent to two concentration camps,...