The Cooler King

The true story of the WWII pilot who inspired Steve McQueen’s character in The Great Escape : “An extraordinary chronicle of resolve and heroism.” — Midwest Book Review When American fighter pilot William Ash’s plane was shot down over France in 1942, he was captured by German forces and placed in a Nazi prison camp. Ash, bolstered by the grit and ingenuity he developed during his upbringing in Texas during the Great Depression, would spend the rest of the war defying the Nazis and striving to e