Escape of a Princess Pat

This is a first-person memoir from the front lines of World War I. Corporal Edwards of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry was captured early in the war and spent fifteen months in German prison camps before orchestrating a daring escape into neutral Holland. George Pearson, who served as a war correspondent, preserves Edwards's own account of survival, cunning, and the particular loneliness of being a prisoner of war in a conflict that seemed to have no end. The narrative moves from the shock of capture through the grinding tedium of captivity to the nerve-wracking final escape across borders. This is not heroism in the grand sense but something more intimate: a man simply trying to get home. For readers drawn to World War I history, firsthand soldier accounts, or stories of survival against the odds.