George Pearson tells the gripping true story of Corporal Edwards of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry — captured on the Western Front, held for fifteen months in German prison camps, and finally making a daring escape across the border into neutral Holland. The narrative combines prisoner-of-war memoir with escape adventure, portraying the ingenuity, endurance, and dark humour that sustained Allied captives.
As a first-hand account of the German prisoner-of-war system and the experience of Canadian soldiers in the First World War, the book is an engaging and historically valuable document.