The cooler king

By Patrick Bishop

Subjects: World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, german, Germany, biography, Canada, royal canadian air force, World War, 1939-1945, Prisoners of war, Escapes, Prisoner-of-war escapes, Canada, biography, German Prisoners and prisons

Description: The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of the war defying the Nazis by striving to escape from every prisoner of war camp in which he was incarcerated.