A selection of true WW2 and post-war escape stories, chosen and introduced by Eric Williams.  'Twelve very different experiences, but all have qualities in common – great ingenuity and daring and a terrific excitement and suspense.' The accounts selected range from the well-known story of Airey Neave's escape from the supposedly impregnable Colditz Castle to repeated failed attempts to abscond from torture in a North Korean prison camp during the Korean War; and from the bravery of a civilian woman in occupied Brussels in sheltering Allied servicemen to a teenage girl's escape from Budapest after the Russian invasion in 1956, carrying only small possessions hidden in her clothes. Suitable for any age from 10 upwards.