Shot Down and on the Run

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Shot Down and on the Run is written by Graham Pitchfork and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1472827201 (ISBN 10) and 9781472827203 (ISBN 13).

First hand accounts of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down and forced to flee enemy forces. Thousands of airmen shot down over enemy soil between 1940 and 1945 miraculously escaped capture. This compelling narrative reveals their stories, based on first-hand interviews, photographs and official documents, featuring heroes from Britain, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries. These men knew extreme adversity: hunger, thirst, injury, isolation and the constant fear of capture. They also knew great kindness from the local people who risked everything to help them. Their journeys to safety – often across savage terrain – tested human endurance and ingenuity to the very limit.