- Title:
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The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A compelling story of courage and endurance in the Second World War
- Written by:
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David M. Guss
- Read by:
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Joshua Manning
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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12 hours 52 minutes
- Published:
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July 28 2018
- Available Date:
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July 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781509894994
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; British; Historical; Military; World War II
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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The extraordinary – and never before told – story of Alastair Cram, the British soldier who escaped from prisoner-of-war camps not once but more than 20 times.
A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of Alastair Cram, brilliantly told by the American author, David Guss. Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa in November 1941, which began a long odyssey through ten different POW camps and three Gestapo prisons. He became a serial escapee – fleeing his captors no fewer than 21 times, including his final, and finally successful, escape from a POW column in April 1945.
Perhaps the most dramatic of his attempts was from Gavi, the ‘Italian Colditz’. Gavi was a maximum-security prison near Genoa for the pericolosi, the ‘most dangerous’ inmates because of their perpetual hunger to escape. It was here that Alastair met David Stirling, the legendary founder of the SAS, and cooked up the plan for what would become the ‘Cistern Tunnel’ escape, one of the most audacious but hitherto little-known mass escape attempts of the entire war.
A story of courage in the face of extraordinary odds, it is a testament to one man's dogged determination never to give up.