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Peter Davies, London
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This is an escape book, and a prison book. Alan Caillou was in a deep penetration patrol in the Western Desert whe he was captured by the Italians. This is his story of capture and escape, brilliantly told. The chase – seen through the eyes of man and beast – draws to its climax at Bichu’s mountain lair. But as the moment of truth draws near, both hunter and hunted have developed an extraordinary and totally unexpected respect for each other. This magnificent novel conveys the harsh truth of animal existence more convincingly than any nature book.
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214 p.; 21 cm
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Intelligence Corps Officer Caillou (1914–2006) nom de plume of Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe MBE, MC (an author, actor, screenwriter and professional hunter in later life) was captured with his friend Frank in February 1943 in the Western Desert on a deep-penetration patrol and ultimately held in a civilian prison in Gaeta, Italy, from which they escaped at the Armistice and made it to the British landing-beaches at Salerno.