From a young age, Marc had always known that his father had been an RAF bomber pilot who had spent several years as a POW, earning the Military Cross for his innumerable escape activities. What Marc did not know, and only discovered in the 20 years following his father's death (in 1979), made the story completely unique in the annals of warfare.
Squadron Leader Peter Stevens MC was actually born Georg Franz Hein, a German Jew. His widowed mother sent him to safety in England in 1934, along with his two siblings. Unable to escape herself, his mother committed suicid more...
