Escape to Live by Wing Commander Edward Howell.

Publisher: Longmans, Green London 1947, first edition.

Good hardback with torn jacket. Red cloth boards are quite faded with some rubbing and bumping to edges. Binding firm, name to ffep, pages very good, minor marks. Price-clipped jacket is rubbed, chipped and marked with some tears. 230 pages, b&w frontispiece.

A former fighter pilot, Wing Commander Edward Howell became a best-selling author after the Second World War. His book, Escape to live, charted the story of his remarkable escape from a German prisoner-of-war hospital in Thessalonica in 1942. He was the central character in the BBC Television series Deliverance, screened some years ago. The production retraced his footsteps over the mountains of northern Greece, a journey he had previously undertaken with more purpose and no television cameras, during his daring wartime escape from Greece. He had been seriously wounded after a ground fight in Crete, where two bullets shattered his left shoulder and fractured the humerus near the joint. Half his right forearm was missing, including some inches of the radius, and he was left for dead before being picked up by German paratroopers and taken to a prison camp hospital in Greece.

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