The soldier who came back : the true account of a heart-stopping journey and a heart-breaking decision
Foster, Steve2018
Books, Manuscripts
In Northern Poland in 1940, at the Nazi war camp Stalag XX-A, two men struck up an unlikely friendship that was to lead to one of the most daring and remarkable wartime escape stories ever told. Antony Coulthard was the privately educated son of wealthy parents and he had a first-class honours degree in modern languages from Oxford. The other man, Fred Foster, was the son of a bricklayer from Nottinghamshire - he left school with no qualifications aged 14. This seemingly mismatched young pair bonded together and hatched a plan to break out of the PoW camp. But, after making it to within touching distance of the Swiss border, their luck ran out. This is their story of their audacious attempt.
Main title:
The soldier who came back : the true account of a heart-stopping journey and a heart-breaking decision / Steve Foster with Alan Clark.
Author:
Foster, Steve, authorClark, Alan, author
Imprint:
London : Mirror Books, 2018.
Collation:
278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (colour) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781912624010 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.54724309438940.5472940.54724940.547940.54724309940.547243
LC class:
D805.5
Local class:
940.547940.547243
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2341538