George Millar wrote a number of interesting books, starting with his rather extraordinary experiences as a prisoner of war. Captured during the desert campaign, he was taken into Italian hands (from which he almost escaped), before being moved to Germany and a much more serious sort of imprisonment at the hands of the Nazis. Yet he managed to escape, jumping from a train on the final leg of a transfer and then making his way from the heart of Germany into France. There he undergoes still further adventures with all sorts of folk that he hopes are in the Resistance, but is never quite sure. It's a mad tale, that only a war could provide, and it is well told by this future writer who went on, in the latter stages of the war, to act as an agent for the Maquis, the much-feared French underground movement based in the south of France. He has written a number of novels recounting his wartime experiences and several of them, notably this one and "Road to Resistance," tend to repeat the same story overmuch. Nevertheless, the experience is authentic, the writing extremely competent and the action informative and entertaining at the same time.