Dodger: the Extraordinary Story of Churchill''s American Cousin, Two World Wars, and The Great Escape 9780762794201, 0762794208
Of all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann Göring''s ""escape proof"" camp in th
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English Pages 531 pages Year 2013
Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: Wookyi-Tipi
Chapter 2: Age Quod Agis
Chapter 3: Esprit de Corps
Chapter 4: Debacle
Chapter 5: The Soldier
Chapter 6: Mediterranean Adventure
Chapter 7: A Corner of a Foreign Field
Chapter 8: Gallipoli
Chapter 9: The Western Front
Chapter 10: Death Revisited
Chapter 11: To the Ends of the Earth
Chapter 12: A Great Game
Chapter 13: Of Bandits and Brigands
Chapter 14: Trading with the Enemy
Chapter 15: Prisoner of the Cheka
Chapter 16: Appointment with Death. Chapter 17: From Far East to East EndChapter 18: Minerva
Chapter 19: A Final Note
Chapter 20: Prisoner of War
Chapter 21: Oh, What a Lovely War!
Chapter 22: With Major Rumpel's Compliments
Chapter 23: Baltic Interlude
Chapter 24: "Escape Proof" Camp
Chapter 25: Polish Interlude
Chapter 26: Tom, Dick, and Harry
Chapter 27: Last Letters Home
Chapter 28: Per Ardua ad Astra
Chapter 29: Death Postponed
Chapter 30: The Sachsenhausen Tunnel
Chapter 31: Escape from the SS
Chapter 32: Mission to Downing Street
Chapter 33: Berlin Days
Chapter 34: Travels with Dr. Thost
Chapter 35: Home. Chapter 36: Shadows and FogChapter 37: In Memoriam
Postscript: The Great Escapers
Appendix I: Lord Freyberg's Address at Johnny's Memorial Service
Appendix II: Christopher Reeve and The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
Appendix III: The Real Great Escape
Appendix IV: Edited Extracts from Johnny's Letters Home while in Captivity
Notes
Select Bibliography
Photographs.
