Author: REES, WING COMMANDER KEN
Title: Lie in the Dark and Listen - the Remarkable Exploits of a Wwii Bomber Pilot and Great Escaper
Description: London, Grub Street. 2004, First. (ISBN: 1904010776). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. 224 pages. 44 illustrations. Life is pretty dull for Ken Rees these days. At seventeen he craved danger and excitement; fast planes and cars, rugby, speed and women. Then war came and by the age of twenty-one he had already trained to be a pilot officer; flown 56 hair-raising missions by night over Germany; taken part in the Siege of Malta; got married; been shot down into a remote Norwegian lake; been captured, questioned by the Gestapo, the sent to Stalag Luft III, whre he participated in and survived the Great Escape and terrible forced march to Bremen. 4. As New/As New.

Keywords: World War Two Bomber Pilots, Great Escapees, German Prisoners of War, Stalag Luft III 1904010776


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