Blenkinsop: from the Belgian underground to Bergen-Belsen

In the night of 27 to 28 April 1944, a Canadian fighter plane crashes in Webbekom near Diest. The pilot, 'Teddy' Blenkinsop, is the only one of eight colleagues to survive the crash and is hidden by the resistance for months. Until fate strikes and a raid in August '44 means his deportation to Germany. There, the Nazis treat him as a resistance fighter instead of a POW pilot.
As a child, Peter Celis regularly visited the cemetery of Meensel-Kiezegem with his grandfather. Even then, the gravestone of Blenkinsop caught his attention. With this book, he wrote off his fascination for the improbable story of that Squadron Leader. Let yourself be carried away by the reconstruction of the small big war of an idealistic Canadian soldier, with the help of dozens of witnesses and family members.
In Canada and England, One Who Almost Made It Back has already become a blockbuster. With the Dutch translation, the story is now also reaching beyond the borders of Meensel-Kiezegem in this language area.