LEADER 03296nam 22004813 450 001 9910157585103321 005 20250730080352.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000942048 035 $a(BIP)057966470 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781787203204 035 $a(Perlego)3019524 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32202833 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32202833 035 $a(OCoLC)1530375762 035 $a(Exl-AI)993710000000942048 035 $a(Exl-AI)32202833 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000942048 100 $a20250730d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWingless Victory $eThe Story of Sir Basil Embry's Escape from Occupied France in the Summer Of 1940 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBielefeld :$cPickle Partners Publishing,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (234 p.) 311 08$a9781787203204 311 08$a1787203204 330 8 $aWINGLESS VICTORY is the story of an audacious and desperate man on the run, the record of one of the first wartime escapes through Occupied France. It reads like a first-class thriller and, as one critic puts it, "leaves fiction gasping far behind." On May 27, 1940, Wing-Commander Basil Embry (later Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry, and Commander, Allied Air Forces in Central Europe 1953-56), although appointed to a higher command, decided to lead his old squadron into battle for the last time. Within the hour he was shot down in France and found himself alone, unarmed, and in uniform. Capture was inevitable. He was, in fact, captured three times, but refused to submit. Once he broke from a column of prisoners under the muzzle of a German machine-gun. Another time he fought his way out, killing three Germans with a stolen rifle and then hiding in a manure heap for nearly six hours. But perhaps the most amazing of all his exploits was the occasion on which, in the role of a fanatical member of the Irish Republican Army, he shook his fist under the nose of a German inquisitor, yelling hatred and abuse of Britain until his captors finally turned him loose to find his own way home. At this period there was little of escape technique to guide him and he had no opportunity to lay plans or prepare equipment. Yet, by sheer courage and wit, he found his way back to Britain to fight and fly again. He won the D.S.O. and three bars, and the D.F.C."The author succeeds in communicating vividly, yet unpretentiously, the sensations of a man on the run....About ten times as exciting as a fictional thriller."--Sunday Times"A thrilling and authentic escape story--will prove a classic."--Daily Herald"The records of World War II have no wilder or stranger story to tell."--Tatler"It is an extremely exciting story, but well spiced with humour as well."--Illustrated London News 606 $aPrisoner-of-war escapes$7Generated by AI 606 $aPrisoners of war$zFrance$7Generated by AI 615 0$aPrisoner-of-war escapes 615 0$aPrisoners of war 700 $aRichardson$b Anthony$01434063 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910157585103321 996 $aWingless Victory$93585526 997 $aUNINA