Great True Escape Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
When the walls close in and freedom becomes the only obsession, the human spirit reveals its most extraordinary capacity for ingenuity, courage, and sheer determination — Great True Escape Stories, edited by Fred Urquhart, presents a gripping collection of real-life accounts chronicling some of history's most daring and audacious escapes. Drawing from wartime prison camps, enemy-occupied territories, and other desperate circumstances, this anthology gathers first-hand and documented narratives that place the reader alongside those who risked everything to reclaim their liberty. Urquhart, a distinguished Scottish writer and anthologist with a keen editorial eye, curates these accounts with a sharp sense of pacing and human drama, allowing each story to resonate as both a testament to individual bravery and a broader reflection on the unbreakable will to survive. The collection spans multiple theatres of conflict and confinement, illuminating the tactical brilliance, split-second decisions, and extraordinary luck that separated the free from the captured. For anyone drawn to the remarkable resilience of the human spirit under the most harrowing of conditions, this volume poses one irresistible question: what would *you* risk for freedom?
Author: Fred Urquhart
Format: Hardback
Published: 1960, Arco Publications, London
Genre: Anthology
Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
When the walls close in and freedom becomes the only obsession, the human spirit reveals its most extraordinary capacity for ingenuity, courage, and sheer determination — Great True Escape Stories, edited by Fred Urquhart, presents a gripping collection of real-life accounts chronicling some of history's most daring and audacious escapes. Drawing from wartime prison camps, enemy-occupied territories, and other desperate circumstances, this anthology gathers first-hand and documented narratives that place the reader alongside those who risked everything to reclaim their liberty. Urquhart, a distinguished Scottish writer and anthologist with a keen editorial eye, curates these accounts with a sharp sense of pacing and human drama, allowing each story to resonate as both a testament to individual bravery and a broader reflection on the unbreakable will to survive. The collection spans multiple theatres of conflict and confinement, illuminating the tactical brilliance, split-second decisions, and extraordinary luck that separated the free from the captured. For anyone drawn to the remarkable resilience of the human spirit under the most harrowing of conditions, this volume poses one irresistible question: what would *you* risk for freedom?