Tom, Dick, and Harry : tunneling out of top-security Stalag Luft III
Before their very eyes : no place to start digging a tunnel? Why, dig it in the open prison yard, the entrance hidden by a vaulting horse over which other prisoners carried on vaulting
The Ruth-Lee : three thousand miles to freedom in Australia ... in an open boat
After midnight : the Danish underground's spectacular rescue of most of Denmark's Jewish population
Wish me luck as you wave me good-bye : a young Australian's multiple escapes
The wizards of MI9 : the highly effective British escape organization and the men who ran it
The man who wouldn't quit : Douglas Bader, the RAF wing commander who gave his German captors fits ... even though he had two aluminum legs
Deliverance from evil : American rangers free more than five hundred POWs threatened with death in the Philippines
Dedee's way : young Countess Andree de Jongh, mastermind of the Comete escape line, which helped Allied forces personnel escape from occupied Europe
Night crossing : the Black Watch officer who escaped the Germans by sheer persistence, daring, and small boat handling
Twelve iron men : ten very tough Americans and two Filipino murderers escape the Japanese on the Philippine island of Davao
Come what may : American nurses are snatched from the site of a New Guinea plane crash by glider
Operation Jericho : the RAF bombed the Amiens Prison at zero feet, smashing holes in the stone walls and freeing hundreds of prisoners, some condemned to death
Ming, the dog who knew : the pet of the Jericho leader knew when her master was flying, and this time knew he wasn't coming back
Fighting man : the saga of Jack Churchill, who went to war with a sword and bow
Operation Halyard : the do-it-yourself air strip
Schloss Colditz and other delights : breaching the walls of an thousand-year-old fortress
If at first you don't succeed : Walter Granecki, who found help from unexpected places in the heart of fascist Italy
The magicians : Christopher Clayton Hutton, who developed remarkable tools for remarkable escapes.
