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- ISBN 9781787636194
- Weight: 596g
- Dimensions: 162 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 11 May 2023
- Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Language: English
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The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.
In August 1944, the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in present-day Slovenia. The escape was organized not by officers, but by two ordinary soldiers: Australian Ralph Churches (a bank clerk before the war) and Londoner Les Laws (a jazz pianist by profession), with the help of U.S. intelligence officer Franklin Lindsay. The American was on a mission to work with the partisans: a group who moved like ghosts through the Alps, ambushing and evading Nazi forces.
Told here for the first time is the story of how these three men came together along with the partisans to plan and execute the escape is told here for the first time. The Greatest Escape, written by Ralph Churches son Neil, tak
Emma Ross (Author)
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