{"product_id":"a-flyja-ea-deyja-26095-25219","title":"Escape or die #26095","description":"To escape or die. A suspense novel by Paul Brickhill. Ásgeir Ingólfsson, an Icelandic.\u003cbr\u003e Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (1916 – 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot and writer, several of whose World War II books were turned into popular movies.\u003cbr\u003e Brickhill was born in Melbourne, Australia and educated at North Sydney Boys High School. Afterwards, he worked as a journalist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e During World War II he joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Under the Empire Air Training Scheme, Brickhill undertook advanced training as a fighter pilot in Canada and the United Kingdom, before being assigned to No. 92 Squadron RAF, a Spitfire unit with the Desert Air Force. In 1943, he was shot down over Tunisia and became a prisoner of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhile imprisoned at Stalag Luft III, in Germany, Brickhill was involved in an elaborate mass escape attempt. He did not take part in tunnelling or the escape itself, due to claustrophobia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On D-Day while still in captivity, Brickhill heard on German radio of two huge Allied armadas heading towards Cap d'Antifer and Calais. In fact these were diversions created by No. 617 Squadron RAF to fool the Germans, a fact he learned months later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After the war, Brickhill wrote the first major account of the escape in The Great Escape (1950), bringing the incident to a wide public attention. He went on to write two other best-selling war books: The Dam Busters, the story of Operation Chastise and the destruction of dams in the Ruhr valley by No. 617 Squadron, and Reach for the Sky, the story of Battle of Britain ace Douglas Bader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Brickhill died in 1991, aged 74.","brand":"Bókin.is","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51125718810952,"sku":"OSC-25219","price":1900.0,"currency_code":"ISK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0916\/4029\/9848\/files\/26095.jpg?v=1754814892","url":"https:\/\/www.bokin.is\/en\/products\/a-flyja-ea-deyja-26095-25219","provider":"bokin.is","version":"1.0","type":"link"}