Open road to faraway: Escapes from Nazi POW camps, 1941-1945 (Voice of War Series)

The author describes briefly his early days in Lanarkshire and holidays with relatives near Clerish before war disrupts his studies. Shot down and injured while on a bombing mission on steelworks near Strassburg, he is eventually arrested and taken to the first of many POW camps: Dulag Luft. Compelled to escape Nazi POW camps by his longing for freedom and inevitable capture, solitary confinment, thirst, hunger, brutality and occasional encounters with kindness.