Book Reviews
Reading recommendations from Young ELMS participants and ELMS members, featuring escape line histories, wartime stories, and memoirs.
Book Reviews
The Young ELMS programme and ELMS members maintain a collection of book reviews featuring escape line histories, wartime stories, memoirs, and research resources. These reviews help readers find engaging and historically valuable reading about WW2 escape and evasion.
2019
The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave
Monopoli Blues
Commando Country
Captive Memories: Starvation – Disease – Survival
No Surrender at Arnhem
Malayan Spymaster
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
One Woman's War
Flee the Captor: The Story of the Dutch-Paris Underground and John Henry Weidner
Escaping With His Life
Les Parisiennes
From One Hell to Another
So Close to Freedom
The Brave Japanese
Secret War
Zero Night
Game of Spies
Escape from the Third Reich
Never Surrender: Lost Voices of a Generation at War
2018
Escape From the Japanese
Lost Warriors
Gentleman Jim
Escaping the Ordinary
Escaping Soldiers and Airmen of World War 1
Shot Down and on the Run
Bletchley Park and the Pigeon Spies
The Escape Line
Secret Pigeon Service
Trusty to the End: The History of 148 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF 1918-1945
The Dutch Resistance Revealed: The Inside Story of Courage and Betrayal
With SOE in Greece
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France
The Barefoot Soldier
The Hidden Army: MI9’s Secret Force and the Untold Story of D-Day
The Great Escapes: The Story of MI9’s WW2 Escape & Evasion Maps
Escape to Pagan
Standing Tall
Italy’s Outstanding Courage - The Story of a Secret Civilian Army in World War Two
2017
Operation Sealion
ETA – A Bomber Command Navigator Shot Down and On The Run
SAS Rogue Heroes
Gardens of Stone
One Day in France
The Twisted Florin
The Nazi Hunters
The Camera Became My Passport Home
Where The Hell Have You Been?
Reviewed by Chris Colussi
Retreat and Rearguard – Dunkirk 1940
D-Day Through German Eyes – Books 1 & 2
Reviewed by Chris Colussi
Holocaust Heroes – Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution
Gurkha
Reviewed by Chris Colussi
The Bletchley Park Girls
Reviewed by Chris Colussi
St Valery and Its Aftermath
Gone To Ground
Home By Christmas
Escaping Hitler
2016
Sisters in Spitfires
Reviewed by Helen Duffee
The Long Range Desert Group
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The French Resistance
A Hundred Miles As The Crow Flies
Rifleman
When the Moon Rises
Lindell's List
Dutch Courage
Swift to Attack – No 1 Group Bomber Command
Within Four Walls
The SAS and LRDG Roll of Honour 1941 – 1947
Shadow Warriors – Daring Missions of WW2 by Women of the OSS and SOE
2015
If This is A Woman - Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
The British Army in France After Dunkirk
No Surrender in Burma
Mosquito Down
Target Italy
Operation Exodus
Shadows in The Fog
Reviewed by Michael Tillotson, The Times
Facing Fearful Odds
KL
Solvitur Ambulando
The Cover Up at Omaha Beach
Reviewed by Chris Colussi
Fighters in The Shadows
Reviewed by Roger Stanton
Great Escaper
Campo 78 – The Aussie Camp
How to Contribute
Members and students are encouraged to submit book reviews. Reviews should focus on:
- Escape line histories and personal accounts
- WW2 resistance and evasion stories
- Biographies of helpers, evaders, and resistance members
- Research resources and archival materials
Please contact the education team to submit a review.