The Tunnel (by Eric Williams)

• 1951 first edition, 255 pages
• Published by Collins, London
• Hardcover with dust jacket, blue boards
• Good condition, some wear and repairs to dust jacket, pages tanned.

By the author of The Wooden Horse.  The author draws a more detailed picture of imprisonment that was possible in The Wooden Horse.  He describes vividly the events preceeding the amazing escape; Peter Howard's parachute descent, attempted evasion and capture, his meeting with John Clinton and the early days of captivity in Oflay XXIB, their plans ti escape, their first tunnel and the bitter disappointment of failure.