Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape by Jeff Steel and Michael Adlam

Book Description

Secondhand. As new condition.

Ambrose Adlam did not even want to go to war. Hitler’s war came looking for him. The war enveloped him, it took over his world; there was no escape. To do nothing was not an option. Ambrose joined the RAF ground crew. That was not enough. He volunteered for active service as a Flight Engineer in Halifax bombers.

The RAF high command forgot to tell him that his chance of survival was minimal. Ambrose found out the hard way as his bomber plummeted to earth in flames. Parachuting into a duck pond in Nazi Germany, he narrowly escaped death. On the run, he is pursued by German forces. They shot him. He survived.

An odyssey through the monstrous world of Luftwaffe prisoner-of-war camps brought him to the eastern fringe of the Third Reich. The camp was called Stalag Luft III. Beneath the exterior calm of the camp routine, an ambitious plot was brewing. The prisoners were organising a mass breakout. There were hundreds involved. As a non-officer, he would not be one to break free … but there was a lot that he could do to support the Great Escape.

This was his war, his mission in life and his purpose. A gripping true story of love and war constructed from meticulous research, family records and eyewitness accounts. (back cover)