Hitting a home run
Oct 01, 2020
2 minutes
by Helen Fry
Yale, 352 pages, £20
Thanks to movies like and the ludicrous sitcom the role of escapers in the Second World War has become almost a comic cliché in the popular imagination, masking the desperate dangers run, and the sacrifices made, by the escapers themselves and the brave civilians of Nazi-occupied Europe who helped them.
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