No Flying Without Wings by Colin Bayliss

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has stamped signed inside front cover, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Signed by author.

In February 1941, aged 19, Western Australian Colin Bayliss enlisted in the RAAF. Under the Empire Air Training Scheme, he gained his wings at Geraldton and was posted to Great Britain.

After surviving the destruction of his Lancaster bomber over north eastern France, he found refuge with a French family until contact was made with the French Underground. Alas, he was captured by the Gestapo and spent the next two years in various prisoner-of-war camps in Eastern Germany.

In January 1945, Bayliss trekked 800km across then Czechoslovakia and Bavaria before meeting up with the advancing Allied Forces.

This memoir not only records some remarkable events but also their impact on a young inexperienced man, catapulted into situations for which his middle-class youth had not prepared him. (back cover)