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The Long Way Home | 
 enlarge | Author: John Mccallum
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 156294
Media: Paperback
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1843410222
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.547243
EAN: 9781843410225
ASIN: 1843410222
Publication Date: November 12, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 The Long Way Home by John McCallum November 19, 2008
Basil's friend (Perthshire)
A brilliant and evocative book by an inspiring gentleman. My Mum read it to my Dad not long before he died and it gave them both greast pleasure at a time when Dad could no longer read so much for himself - it was a hark back to his own war years as a veteran of D Day and one of the first to land on Sword Beach as part of an anti tank division.
Not just my opinion November 1, 2008
Mrs. JOAN MCCALLUM (Spain)
The Long Way Home: The Other Great Escape (Isis (Hardcover Large Print)) I will admit firstly to being biased with regard to John McCallum's book, as I am his sister-in-law. However I enjoyed it very much and have passed it to many friends (most of whom have served in the forces during the last war) and without exception they all found it to be a fascinating read. It has also been read by the "younger" generation who found it most enjoyable and easy to read.
The Long Way Home John Mccallum October 13, 2006
Mike (Scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Brilliant moving story wonderfully told. Im proud to belong to such a great tradition of bravery, self sacrifice and luck.
 timing is everything August 11, 2006
masspecguy (uk)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although its not the best written book on the subject
what is simply breathtakingly stagering is that three escaped pow's are not only on the run at the exact same time as the great escape, its is that they pass through the very same area onroute to freedom.
reading accounts of jimmy james one of the great escapers the whole country was awash with local meltia looking for the airmen from stalag luft drie how did they pull it off!!!
I like the way the author analytically looks for reasons why they where astonishingly fortunate
these men could never be so lucky again
The real 'great escape' October 8, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a simple but truly remarkable story of three Glasgow boys, signalmen in the British Army during World War II, who, after tiring of captivity at the hands of their German adversaries, simply walked out of the POW camp in which they had been held and wandered, unchallenged, to Sweden and a safe passage home, to families and to the army.It is a swaggering and often amusing story of courage, adventure and love, lost and found, which should be required reading for the generation who will never see a war on the scale fought by these brave men and their comrades. The Long Way Home is a brilliant story, well told.
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