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Escapers all : being the personal narratives of fifteen escapers from war-time prison camps 1914-1918

Archive Print Item: War Books 1919/39/ESC

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Type of record: Book

Title: Escapers all : being the personal narratives of fifteen escapers from war-time prison camps 1914-1918

Level: Item

Classmark: War Books 1919/39/ESC

Related people: Ackerley, J. R; Beaumont, Harry; Cartwright, H. A; Durnford, H. G; Evans, A. J; Grinnell-Milne, Duncan William; Hardy, J. L; Hardy, J. L; Harrison, Michael Charles Cooper; Harrison, Michael Charles Cooper

Publisher: John Lane : The Bodley Head

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1932

Language: English

Size and medium: 302, [8] p., [4] leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/634017

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001568079705181

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"First published in 1932; reprinted 1932"--T.p. verso


Publisher's advertisements on last 8 unnumbered pages after text


(cont.) 11. An unconducted tour of England / Heinz H.E. Justus -- 12. Outwitting the Turk / E.H. Keeling -- 13. Hide-and-seek in Eastern seas / Hellmut von Mücke -- 14. Through the camp sewer / Ernest Pearce -- 15. Escaping from England / Gunther Plüschow -- 16. Rendezvous with a submarine / Hermann Tholens -- 17. Hazards of escape / Lawrence A. Wingfield


Introduction : The grim game of escape / J.R. Ackerley -- 1. Trapped in Belgium / Harry Beaumont -- 2. Beginners / H.A. Cartwright -- 3. Tunneling to freedom / Hugh Durnford -- 4. Exploits of the Escaping Club / A.J. Evans -- 5. Inveterate escapers / Duncan Grinnell-Milne -- 6. A winter's tale / J.L. Hardy -- 7. Fugitives

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