Long out of print, but still available from Amazon dealers or proper independent bookshops,
Escape or Die by Paul Brickhill. Six or more tales of escape and evasion during the Second World War, one tale tells of an escape in the jungles of South East Asia with quite a few bushcrafty elements.
In a similar vein (but not so bushcrafty) and well worth a read are the '
War Diaries of Weary Dunlop'. Sir Edward Dunlop was a medical officer on the Burma-Thailand Railway, the book details the ways in which he attempted to either save lives or ease the suffering of his charges, often using only those items his staff could find in the jungle or scavenge from rubbish tips.
For example and old broken bicycle was transformed into a centrifuge to prepare blood plasma.
Both of these titles can make for grim reading, be warned.
