Escape from a firing squad...

This story appeared today of a remarkable escape and an equally remarkable, though sad, coincidence. Apologies if this story is well known to you and for those annoying adverts:

LORD ASHCROFT: How two SAS men escaped from a Nazi firing squad | Daily Mail Online

 

What an incredible escape. The ultimate do or die situation.

 

Wasn’t it just. Incredible story.

 

Curious to note this in the article:

An expensive book now - according to Amazon, at £56.95p. Cheaper from New Zealand, even with P&P: Air Commando by Serge Vaculik - AbeBooks

Those who did not escape are shown here: Private Thomas James (Tot) Barker - Cookstown War Dead

 

Thanks very much for the Cookstown article.

There’s only one copy “within the UK” on Abe and it’s the most expensive. Had a quick look on Ebay (several French copies there) and up popped lots of those wonderful old Commando comic books that held me spellbound as a boy.