Ebook: The great escape: the untold story
Author: Stalag Luft III., Barris Ted
- Tags: Évasions de prisonniers de guerre--Pologne--Żagań, Guerre mondiale 1939-1945, Guerre mondiale 1939-1945--Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands, Prisoner-of-war escapes, Prisoner-of-war escapes--Poland--Żagań, Prisoners of war, Prisoners of war--Canada, Prisoners of war--Germany, Prisonniers de guerre--Allemagne, Prisonniers de guerre--Canada, World War 1939-1945, World War 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons German, Biographies, Personal narratives, Biography, Stalag Luft III, World War 1939-1945 -- Prisoners
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Dundurn
- City: Canada;Germany;Poland;Żagań
- Language: English
- epub
One night in 1944, 80 airmen escaped a German POW compound in Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape." Ted Barris writes of the planners, task leaders, and key players in the escape attempt, those who got away, those who didn't, and their families at home.;Introduction: "Heroes Resurface" -- The King's Regulations -- Bond of Wire -- "Spine-Tingling Sport" -- Escape Season -- Servant to a Hole in the Ground -- "Shysters and Crooks and Con Men" -- The Play's the Thing -- "Through Adversity to the Stars" -- The Hate Campaign -- Long Road Home -- "A Proud, Spectacular Distraction."
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