LIE in the DARK and LISTEN

Signed by RAF POWs at Stalag Luft III involved with the Great Escape

Wg Cdr Ken Rees ~ Tunneller & Author
Sqn Ldr BA ‘Jimmy’ James MC ~ no 39 out of the tunnel
Flt Lt Neil Stebbings ~ Stooge
Fg Off Leonard Hall ~ Meteorologist
Flt Lt Jack Lyon ~ Stooge
Flt Lt Alan Bryett ~ Penguin & Stooge
Fg Off Bobby Laumans ~ Penguin
Flt Lt Walter Morison ~ engineer on ‘Harry’ & Colditz POW
Plt Off Frank Stone ~ Penguin
Karen Arrandale ~ co author

Grub Street first edition 2004.  224 pages and well illustrated with photos.

Mint condition hardback book and dustjacket. Clean, tight and unread. As new.

Ken Rees flew 56 night bomber missions over Germany. He was based in Malta in 1941 during the siege flying raids on Italy Later he was shot down into a remote Norwegian lake, was captured and questioned by the Gestapo then sent to Stalag Luft III where he participated in and survived the Great Escape and terrible forced march to Bremen.

From his Obituary in The Daily Telegraph:

Ken Rees died in August 2014 aged 93. He was the last surviving member of the digging team that constructed the tunnel used during the “Great Escape” from Stalag Luft III in March 1944.  A gregarious, high-spirited, and at times irreverent young man (he was 21 years old at the time of his capture), Rees was a restless and troublesome prisoner, always baiting his captors and he regularly found himself in the “cooler” — the punishment block. When Hollywood filmed the escape from Stalag Luft III, many drew parallels between Rees and the character of Hilts, the “Cooler King” played by Steve McQueen. “It’s always said that he was based on me,” said Rees late in life, “apart from him being a 6ft tall American and me a Welshman of about 4ft 3in who can’t ride a motorbike.”

A great RAF Prisoner of War memoir with an excellent collection of signatures from the book launch.