All Formats & Editions

General Sir John Hackett, the author of The Third World War, now tells his most gripping story--the personal memoir of his daring escape from the Nazis. A moving tribute . . . One is inspired, uplifted, and consistently engrossed.--Publishers Weekly.

General Sir John Hackett, the author of The Third World War, now tells his most gripping story--the personal memoir of his daring escape from the Nazis. A moving tribute . . . One is inspired, uplifted, and consistently engrossed.--Publishers Weekly.

Badly wounded at the battle of Arnhem, and then spirited from his hospital bed by the Dutch Resistance, Brigadier John Hackett spent the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied Holland, hidden by a Dutch family, at great risk to their own lives, in a house a stone's throw from a German... Read Full Overview