Author: ASH WILLIAM
Title: Under the Wire the Wartime Memoir of a Spitfire Pilot, Legendary Escape Artist and Cooler King.
Description: Bantam Books UK. 2005, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0593054083) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 24cm. Heavy Book Over 500gms, Bill Ash, an American by birth relinquished his citizenship and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force to enable him to help with the war effort in Europe against the Nazis. An incredible story of being shot down over Europe, surviving the plane crash and making his way to Paris only to be betrayed to the Gestapo, tortured and sentenced to death as a spy. He was saved from the intervention of the Luftwaffe who sent him to the POW camp, Stalag Luft III. Bill Ash then became one of only a handful of serial escape artists to attempt more than a dozen breakouts. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Ash William, Bill Ash, Royal Canadian Air Force, World War 11, Second World War 0593054083


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