Author Description

This new edition of The Long Walk Home sets the record of this extraordinary adventure straight, giving equal billing to Frank Simms as author, something that was denied him by the tragic early death of Peter Medd Simms s son Marcus Binney, himself a famous campaigner for architectural conservation, provides an informative afterword, fleshing out his father s courageous career and putting the escape in Italy in context Includes Frank Simms s thrilling account of his previous Great Escape, from the PoW camp at Padula in southern Italy. He and twelve companions managed to tunnel out of the beautiful monastery over the hot summer of 1942