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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019
Copyright © Patrick Bishop 2019
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Maps by Martin Brown
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Source ISBN: 9780008309046
Ebook Edition © March 2019 ISBN: 9780008309060
Version: 2019-04-05
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 the fault of the biographer. Establishing the external facts of a public life in modern, well-documented times is fairly straightforward. It is charting the inner landscape that is the problem. How can we know what someone really thought, what drove him or her to do this or that? Letters and diaries open a window on these