ESCAPE ARTISTThe Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck

\n\nESCAPE ARTIST\nThe Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck\n\nESCAPE ARTIST\nThe Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck\n\nIn August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break \u2013 an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete. Astoundingly, this was only the first of many escapes.An infantryman in the 2/7 Battalion, Johnny Peck was first thrown into battle against Italian forces in the Western Desert. Campaigns against Hitler\u2019s Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe in Greece and Crete followed. When Crete fell to the Germans at the end of May 1941, Peck was trapped on the island with hundreds of other men. On the run, they depended on their wits, the kindness of strangers, and sheer good luck.When Peck\u2019s luck ran out, he was taken captive by the Germans, then the Italians. Later, after his release from a Piedmontese jail following the Italian Armistice of 1943, and at immense risk to his own life, Peck devote;