escape maps – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 21 Dec 2016 20:42:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg escape maps – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 More on Escape Maps https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/12/more-on-escape-maps/ Wed, 21 Dec 2016 20:42:44 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=3679 More]]> Schaffhausen Airey Neave escape map. The War Office, 1940. British Library.
Schaffhausen Airey Neave escape map. The War Office, 1940. British Library.

I’ve known about escape maps—maps printed on silk to help prisoners of war escape Germany during the Second World War—for a while now, and have blogged about them before, but this Atlas Obscura piece on them taught me a few things I didn’t know, and is a fascinating read besides.

See also this article from the British Library, from last October. And in case you missed it, a book on the subject, Barbara Bond’s Great Escapes: The Story of MI9’s Second World War Escape and Evasion Maps (Times Books), came out last year.

Previously: Dress Made from Silk Escape Maps Sold; Three Books on WWII Maps; World War II Escape Maps.

]]> 3679 Dress Made from Silk Escape Maps Sold https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/07/dress-made-from-silk-escape-maps-sold/ Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:40:16 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=2396 More]]> BBC News: “A dress made from silk maps given to RAF soldiers in WW2 to help them find a route out of enemy territory has been sold for an undisclosed sum. The dress, made from ‘escape and evade’ maps, is thought to be from 1945-50.” [NYMS]

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