A raid over Berlin / John Martin.
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TextPublisher: Leicester [England] : Thorpe, Charnwood, 2019Edition: Large print editionDescription: 162 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444842227; 1444842226Subject(s): Air pilots, Military -- Great Britain -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British | Prisoners of war -- Germany -- BiographyGenre/Form: Autobiographies. | Large type books. DDC classification: 940.548141 Summary: Trapped inside a burning Lancaster bomber 20,000 feet above Berlin, wireless operator John Martin consigned himself to his fate and turned his thoughts to his fiancee back home. In a miraculous turn of events, however, the twenty-one-year-old was thrown clear of his disintegrating aeroplane and found himself parachuting into the heart of Nazi Germany, where he was soon captured. Drawn from his own memories, and from conversations with other POWs, this is the true-life account of a Second World War airman who cheated death in the sky, only to face interrogation and the prospect of being shot by the Gestapo, before enduring months of sorrow and hunger as a prisoner of war. Above all, however, it is the story of one man's courage and determination in the face of adversity.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Large Print | 940.548141 MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111077367199 |
Trapped inside a burning Lancaster bomber 20,000 feet above Berlin, wireless operator John Martin consigned himself to his fate and turned his thoughts to his fiancee back home. In a miraculous turn of events, however, the twenty-one-year-old was thrown clear of his disintegrating aeroplane and found himself parachuting into the heart of Nazi Germany, where he was soon captured. Drawn from his own memories, and from conversations with other POWs, this is the true-life account of a Second World War airman who cheated death in the sky, only to face interrogation and the prospect of being shot by the Gestapo, before enduring months of sorrow and hunger as a prisoner of war. Above all, however, it is the story of one man's courage and determination in the face of adversity.
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