Boldness be my friend
by Richard Pape
Aggressive, impetuous and resolute, Richard Pape was never going to sit out the war in a Nazi prison. Captured after going on the run when his bomber crashed in occupied Holland, Pape's thoughts turned at once to escape. In the most appalling of conditions, his ingenuity did not fail him. Not only did he send over a hundred coded messages to the War Office, but he swapped identities with a fellow prisoner and took on heavy mining work to put himself in a position to make a break-out. This proved to be only the beginning of his adventures ...
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'Boldness Be My Friend' is a gripping first-hand account of wartime bravey by Richard Pape, a Royal Air Force Warrant Officer Manager from Bomber Command. His memoirs here cover the three-year period in which time he was made a PoW having been shot down and captured in Germany in 1941. This ed. originally published: London: Granada, 1984.
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