Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page. Faint mark on right foredge. Light foxing to top foredge. Previous owner has used paper clip as a book mark causing an indentation to the top of some pages. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and corners. Tear to the tip of the top spine.
What was inside Amiens Prison in northern France that was so important that the Allies were forced to bomb it on February 18, 1944?
It resulted in the most breathtaking gaolbreak and mass manhunt ever, with more than seven hundred men and women - convicted spies, saboteurs, resistance fighters, criminals and prisoners-of-war. They were all comrades on the run in one extraordinary escape or die-dash for liberty. (book flap)