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Colditz
Cooler King
Dambusters
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Escape from Colditz
famous film
famous war story
film starring Steve McQueen
German PoW camp
great escape narratives
hero
James Garner
Military history
military memoir
most famous escape story
motorbike jump
non fiction best seller
prisoner camps of war
REACH FOR THE SKY
Richard Attenborough
second world war heroes
Spitfire
Stalag Luft
Steve McQueen
Tom Dick and Harry
true story
true story from the Second World War
tunnels
Wings on my Sleeve
Wooden Horse
world war two
Product details
- ISBN 9780304356874
- Weight: 230g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 02 Nov 2000
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic film.
One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year they dug tunnels, and those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had escaped. All of this was conducted under the very noses of their prison guards. When the right night came, the actual escape itself was timed to the split second - but of course, not everything went according to plan...
During the war Paul Brickhill was shot down over German territory and sent to a prisoner of war camp. After the war he wrote about the numerous escape attempts in which he was involved in THE GREAT ESCAPE. REACH FOR THE SKY, and THE DAMBUSTERS RAID are his most famous works.
