The Password Is Courage

Here is one of the most extraordinary true stories of daring and heroism to emerge out of the Second World War. When he was captured in France in 1940, Sergeant-Major Charles Coward launched his own private war. For several incredible years he played a deadly game of bluff, while transmitting vital information back to England. With the help of fellow prisoners, he carried guns and dynamite for Polish secret agents and organised the escape of four hundred prisoners from Auschwitz. Finally he smuggled himself into Auschwitz and mingled with its doomed inmates, until he was forced to flee from execution himself.