| Entry Text: | MEDD, Peter. The Long Walk Home: An Escape Through Italy. 176p., frontis. London: Lehmann, 1951.
Flying a recce from Warspite in his Walrus in 1940 he was shot down over Italy. In September 1943 while being moved from an Italian to a German prison camp following the armistice, he escaped and made it to the Allied lines. He was then based as an instructor in the UK but was killed in a plane crash in August 1944. This is the story of his home run, reconstructed from his own notes by his partner in the escape, Major Frank Simms. |
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