Subject: Prisoners of war (Keywords)

This is the extraordinary - and never before told - story of Alastair Cram, the British soldier who escaped from prisoner-of-war camps not once but more than twenty times.

A Scottish lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa in November 1941. He tried to escape almost immediately - the first of twenty-one daring attempts. Over the course of the Second Word War he passed through twelve POW camps, three Gestapo prisons and one asylu...

An 'ill-fated' British infantry division, despatched to relieve a hard-pressed Singapore, arrived just in time to face a late stage of the Japanese advance from mainland Malaya. Andy Dillon, featured in this book, was one of the many unsung heroes.

When Tom Guttridge returned from war in the early summer of 1945, he brought home not only vivid memories of the battlefield and his five years in prisoner-of-war camps but a unique collection of photographs obtained from his German captors by trading items from Red Cross parcels. These included ...

This is the inspiring story of how a passion for birds enabled four young men to escape the horror of internment in a German PoW camp - and brought about an extraordinary moment of cooperation and mutual understanding between them and their captors.