SAS and Elite Forces Guide Prisoner of War Escape & Evasion

Author: Christopher Mcnab
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 146174864X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
The POW How To Escape Handbook covers everything you need to know about making a successful return to friendly territory. Beginning from the point where a combatant finds himself or herself trapped in enemy territory, the book offers useful tips and solid advice on how to evade capture and, if that fails, how to escape. Key topics include the will to survive; handling stress in captivity; escape techniques; survival in a variety of environments, including urban, rural, jungle and desert; how to forage for food; tracking and how to cover your tracks; navigation, with or without a map; and seeking recovery by friendly forces. The book also includes a number of real life accounts of POW escape from World War II (including The Great Escape story and Colditz), the Vietnam War (Dieter Dengler, with others, escaping from Laos), the Balkans, Iraq (Thomas Hamill in 2004) and Afghanistan.

Prisoner of War Escape & Evasion

Author: Chris McNab
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908273154
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
This volume offers useful advice on how to evade capture and, if that fails, how to escape. The key topics include the will to survive; handling stress in captivity; escape techniques; survival in a variety of environments; how to forage for food; and much more.

POW Escape And Evasion

Author: Chris McNab
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782740996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
With more than 120 black-&-white artworks and with easy-to-follow text, POW Escape and Evasion is for anyone who wants to know how to survive in the most stressful of circumstances and emerge a winner. Presented in a handy, pocket-size format, this is a book you could take with you into the field. And it could save your life.

The Special Forces Guide to Escape and Evasion

Author: Will Fowler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312336530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
A survival guide offers strategies for evading capture and returning to friendly territory if trapped behind enemy lines, in a resource that covers such topics as survival in a variety of environments, navigating without a map, and foraging for food.

The SAS and Special Forces Guide to Escape and Evasion

Author: Will Fowler
Publisher: Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN: 9781862272774
Category : Escapes
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
SAS and Special Forces guide to escape and evasion

World War II Secret Operations Handbook

Author: Stephen Hart
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782741038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
The World War II Secret Operations Handbook reveals the skills and tricks used by the British SOE, the US OSS, the French Maquis, and other special forces between 1939 and 1945. Learn how to rig up a makeshift radio, how to pass undetected in enemy territory, how to live off the land and make shelter, and how to work as a sniper.

Surviving Captivity

Author: Chris McNab
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1422287815
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
During a time of war, pilots face the risk of being shot down behind enemy lines and captured. For this reason, each pilot receives training to help him endure the stresses of captivity. During an interrogation, this training and the pilot's own strength and willpower are invaluable. This book discusses many of the techniques used to survive the experience of being in captivity. A captive pilot must be prepared to cope with boredom, resist interrogation, and work as a team with other prisoners. In addition, he must know how to go about escaping if he has the opportunity. Discover: • how some U.S. pilots in Vietnam coped with seven years of imprisonment. • how interrogators try to trick people into talking. • how interrogators are trained to detect lies. • survival techniques during escape. • tracking skills used by escaping pilots and the pursuing enemy.

Escape and Evasion

Author: Jack Montana
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1422295001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Operating behind enemy lines takes nerve, courage, and skill. Above all, it requires the knowledge of how to stay undetected and how to escape if need be. These are the lessons of Escape and Evasion. The book covers all the essential skills of an undercover soldier. Infiltration by land, sea, and air are described in detail. The unique physical demands of night fighting are explained. Tracking techniques are also revealed, showing how the elite soldier can tell where the enemy is from broken twigs and dropped litter. In addition, this book explains some of the most surprising features of behind-the-lines operations, including: • How you can fool a tracker dog • Why you should look at the outline of shapes at night. • How you can calculate the distance of an enemy from a gunshot. • Why you should put bits of tape on all metal objects you carry. • What the best place is for an ambush.

In-Flight Escape Experiences of Southeast Asia Prisoner of War Returnees

Author: Robert H. Shannon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11

Book Description
During the Tenth Annual Symposium of the Survival and Flight Equipment (SAFE) Association, 2-5 Oct 1972, a special papers session addressed combat escape, evasion, and recovery of United States Air Force (USAF) personnel in Southeast Asia (SEA). Specific subjects included escape and evasion problems, use of survival equipment, rescue and recovery of downed crewmen, and the role of life support training and training equipment. This paper will address the phase between shootdown and parachute landing of the 207 ejections/extractions/bailouts.

Prisoner of War Resistance

Author: United States. Department of the Army
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description