The Man Who Was Saturday. Patrick Bishop
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Maps by Martin Brown
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Source ISBN: 9780008309084
Ebook Edition © March 2019 ISBN: 9780008309060
Version: 2019-12-17
TO MARY JO, THOMAS AND MARTHA ROSE
Contents
Prologue: ‘Some Devils Got Him’
10 ‘A Perfect Woman, Nobly Planned’
12 Warrior in a Dark Blue Suit
The siege of Calais
Plan of Colditz Castle
AN’s unsuccessful and successful escapes through Germany, Poland and Switzerland
Escape lines operated by Pat O’Leary and Comet in France and the Low Countries
Arnhem showing Pegasus operations
Biography masquerades as history but is often a species of fiction. That is not necessarily