North to the Apricots: The Escape Stories of Sergeant Bruce Crowley DCM, New Zealand Prisoner of War in Greece & Germany 1941-1943 SIGNED by Julia Millen

Softback very good condition, minor shelf wear 9780473214166 Published NZ 1 Aug 2012 Publisher Writes Hill Press

SERGEANT BRUCE CROWLEY, A SECTION 4RMT of the NZ Army Service Corps, was the first New Zealand POW to make a successful escape from Germany back to Britain in World War II. Captured during the Allied withdrawal from Greece in April 1941, en route to a German POW camp he jumped from the train and for several months lived among Greek villagers. Re-captured he was sent to the infamous Stalag VIIIB in southeastern Europe. In July 1943 Crowley scaled a wall and escaped from a working party at Breslau. Disguised as a civilian he made his way by train to a Baltic port where he planned to stowaway on a ship to Sweden. Read about Bruce Crowley's remarkable escapades on the run from the Germans in this new book recorded by the old soldier