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Over the wire : a POW escape story of the Second World War

Newman, Philip, D.S.O.2013
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Philip Newman, a British army surgeon left behind after the evacuation from Dunkirk, spent his time as a prisoner of war in France, then Germany, treating the wounded and sick - and planning to escape. After several failed attempts he got out over the wire and journeyed for weeks as a fugitive from northern France to Marseilles, then across the Pyrenees to Spain and Gibraltar and freedom. His straightforward, honest and vivid memoir gives a fascinating insight into his wartime experience.
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