General Sir John Hackett, the author of The Third World War, now tells his most gripping story--the personal memoir of his daring escape from the Nazis.

Badly wounded at the battle of Arnhem, and then spirited from his hospital bed by the Dutch Resistance, Brigadier John Hackett spent the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied Holland, hidden by a Dutch family, at great risk to their own lives, in ...

I read this book on the recommendation from a fellow officer in order to gain a better historical perspective of the military profession.

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