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Angus and Robertson Sydney 2nd Australian edition 1935. Hard cover 282pp. Spine slack, spine sunned and marked and worn on edges, corners bumped, foxing on page edges and internally. Else good. First hand account of an Australian airman's escape from a Turkish prison camp during WWI. White was one of the first four men in Australia to be trained as a pilot with the Australian Flying Corps, and he tells of his experiences before capture. Downed over Palestine on a daring sabotage mission, he and his companions were marched 100s of miles to a primitive prison camp in the middle of Turkey. Feigning illmess he had himself sent to a military hospital in Constantinople and managed to escape. He recounts his experiences as he made his way back to Allied forces.