First published in 1954, this is the true story of Belgian Andree de Jongh, who saved the lives of more than 800 airmen and soldiers during WWII, by helping them escape occupied Belgium and France, over the Pyrenees to Spain.
The author, wounded and taken prisoner in Calais in 1940 became a compulsive escaper and was the first of the very few to make a 'home- run' from Colditz Castle. Thereafter he rejoined the fighting serving in France and Holland in MI9 before becoming a member of the International Tribunal at Nuremburg.
