The long walk home - Peter Medd

This new edition of The Long Walk Home sets the record of this extraordinary adventure
straight,
giving
equal
billing
to
Frank
Simms
as
author,
something that was denied him by the tragic early death of Peter MeddSimms's
son
Marcus
Binney,
himself
a
famous
campaigner
for
architectural conservation,
provides
an
informative
afterword,
fleshing
out
his
father's courageous career and putting the escape in Italy in context Includes
Frank
Simms's
thrilling
account
of
his
previous 'Great
Escape',
from the PoW camp at Padula in southern Italy. He and twelve companions managed to tunnel out of the beautiful monastery over the hot summer of 1942