Contents

Contents : introduction -- break-out -- the Priest-hole -- welcome visitors -- the fugitive king -- Casanova's escape -- the underground railroad -- nothing but rats -- the balloonists -- Churchill-s escape -- escapologist (Harry Houdini) -- the man with the dragon tattoo -- disguise -- the one that got away -- business concluded -- the wooden horse -- colditz -- Papillon -- the wall -- the ten-second break-out -- reference section : prisons -- prison breaks -- secret hiding places -- prison camps -- escape kits -- evasion -- ready reference -- index.