Author: Shuff, Derek,
Title: EVADER - The Epic Story of the First British Airman to be Rescued by the Comète Escape Line in World War II.
Description: Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2003, 1st edn., xiv, 176pp, 8pp half tone photo ills. and facsimiles, in text map, coloured endpapers, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the experiences of RAF Air-Gunner Jack Newton, who was on his first bombing raid over Germany to Aachen when his 12 Squadron Wellington was hit by 'flak', with the loss of an engine the pilot succeeded in crash-landing on German occupied Belgian airfield and Jack, managing to evade capture, was one of the first of many Allied airmen to take advantage of Andree de Jongh's 'Comet' escape line to Spain, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, fine in a very good plus dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 raf belgium wellington comet belgian escape line spain andree de jongh


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