Description: On Sunday, 10 June 1940, the Rev. Donald Caskie, Minister of the Scottish Kirk in Paris preached for the last time in four years, said goodbye to his congregation, locked the church and joined the mass-exodus from the city. A Highlander, he denounced Hitler from the pulpit. He was on the Gestapo ‘Black List’. After a perilous journey – he was mobbed by French villagers who thought him a German paratrooper and machine-gunned from the air – he arrived in Marseilles and commandeered the British Seamen’s Mission near the Old Harbour. There the adventures of the Tartan Pimpernel began.  Immediately contacted by Allied Intelligence Officers he conscripted to service. The Seamen’s Mission became a vital link on the escape route for prisoners-of-war and soldiers escaping from Dunkirk. He fed, clothed and gave the men shelter before sending them through the Pyrenees with forged papers to Spain. He collected military information for the Allies. Denounced by a British traitor, Dr Caskie was banished to Grenoble where he continued his work as an ‘underground padre’. Arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to death in a Nazi Court he passed through seven prisons and was saved from death by a Nazi padre. Throughout his perils he was sustained by the Christian Faith and inspired by native patriotism. His story is enlivened by Scottish humour and brilliant character studies of his comrades and enemies. He was awarded the OBE for his services to the Allied cause.