"The biography of NZ403460 Squadron Leader Phillip John Lamason, DFC and Bar, the heroic New Zealander whose WWII story of leadership and courage is still not well known in his own country. Lamason, aged just 25 years, assumed leadership of a group of 168 Allied Airmen wrongly incarcerated in the Buchenwald death camp in 1944 and through positive and assertive actions delivered these men from inevitable execution at the hands of the Nazi SS Gestapo." --Publisher.