Downed Allied Airmen and Evasion of Capture: The Role of Local Resistance Networks in World War II

by Herman Bodson

This volume deals specifically with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, an operation in which the author himself was directly involved, and discusses the role which these lines of escape played in the lives of airmen who were forced to bail out over enemy territory. He describes the ever-present risks the often nameless patriots faced, such as the danger of exposure and the threat of traitorous infiltration. Specific lines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786422165
• ISBN13: 9780786422166
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher