Australia's Greatest Escapes: Gripping tales of wartime bravery

Australia's greatest escape stories from two world wars

Australia's Greatest Escapes is a collection of stories about the most hazardous aspect of the prisoner of war experience - escape. Here is all the adventure, suspense and courage of ordinary Australians who defied their captors; men who tunnelled to freedom, crawled through stinking drains, or clawed a passage beneath barbed wire in a desperate attempt to flee captivity.

They were willing to risk the odds and even death in the lonel...