Four Miles to Freedom: Escape from a Pakistani POW Camp - Softcover

Johnston, Faith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8184007213 ISBN 13: 9788184007213

Publisher: Random House, India, 2013

Synopsis

When Flight Lieutenant Dilip Parulkar was shot down over Pakistan on 10 December 1971, he quickly turned that catastrophe into the greatest adventure of his life. On 13 August 1972 Parulkar, along with Malvinder Singh Grewal and Harish Sinhji, escaped from a POW camp in Rawalpindi. Four Miles To Freedom is their story. Based on intereviews and other sources, Four Miles ... is the moving, sometimes amusing, account of how twelve fighter pilots from different ranks and backgrounds coped with food deprivation, forced intimacy and the pervasive uncertainty of a year in captivity, and how they came together to support Parulkar's courageous escape.

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Review:

'A deeply moving account of our fighter pilots being taken as prisoners in Pakistan in the '71 war and the gripping story of their daring escape. A tale of true grit and courage' --Major General (Dr) G.D. Bakshi (retrd)

'Four Miles to Freedom has the suspense of good escape fiction- but it's a true story, and a moving one. Caught in a dramatic moment in India's history, these young men come to vivid life on the page.' --Joan Thomas, Author of Reading by Lightning and Curiosity

About the Author:

Faith Johnston is a Canadian writer and former teacher. Her biography of one of Canada's first women parliamentarians, A Great Restlessness, was shortlisted for six awards and won five. Four Miles to Freedom is her third book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House, India
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 8184007213
• ISBN 13: 9788184007213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204