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Last Man Standing: Geoffrey Rothwell: Survivor of 71 Bombing Missions, POW and the Only Surviving SOE Pilot by Gabrielle McDonald-Rothwell

Last Man Standing: Geoffrey Rothwell: Survivor of 71 Bombing Missions, POW and the Only Surviving SOE Pilot by Gabrielle McDonald-Rothwell

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Tall young pilot Geoffrey Rothwell flew Wellingtons and Short Stirlings in WWII; and anyone who knows anything about that task will understand the significance of the fact that he completed more than 60 bombing missions. But the story doesn't end there: as a Flight Commander on No. 138 (Special Duties) Squadron Geoff dropped agents and supplies into enemy-occupied Europe. On his 71st mission he crashed in Holland and became a guest of the Third Reich in the freezing Stalag Luft 1 on the Baltic coast. He starved, but survived until the moment a drunken Russian officer on a white horse arrived to invite the prisoners to a night of revelry in the local village. As a member of Bomber Command, Geoffrey was one of the last of the many; as an SOE pilot he was the last of a very few. This is his amazing story. Sadly, Squadron Leader Geoffrey Rothwell passed away in December 2017, before this book went to print.

Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Publication date: 2018-11-15
Pages: 272
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781445681313-N
Dimensions: 233.0 x 155.0 x 25.0 mm
Weight: 0.352 kg View full details