{"product_id":"dodger-3","title":"Dodger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dodger\u003c\/i\u003e is the long-awaited story of Johnny Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure  in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film \u003ci\u003eThe Great Escape\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann Göring's 'escape proof' camp in the famous episode of March 1944, Johnny Dodge was the most intriguing. American-born Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the 'Great Escape'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitler's interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche Nazi apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnny's adventurous life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \u003ci\u003eThe Dodger \u003c\/i\u003edraws upon Dodge's voluminous private papers, including photographs taken inside prison camps and letters home, casting revealing new light on the myth of the Great Escape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54228263633240,"sku":"9781780576060","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781780576060.jpg?v=1777116620","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dodger-3","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}