Ikram Sehgal's memoir reads more like a racy suspense novel instead of a gritty, soldierly chronicle and in his fore-ward to the book, Air Marshal (retd! Asghar Khan is right to comment that this fascinating account would make an excellent film. Sentences such as "I have gone through an odyssey and yet I am no Ulysses," and "I had a date with destiny which I could not avoid," are really more in line with fiction than the real-life record of a POW escape. But on the upside, a melodramatic script-like prose full of idiomatic language and sprinkled liberally with proverbs is what makes Sehgal's account immensely readable.
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