The Great Escape (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)
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- Synopsis
- 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...
- Copyright:
- 1950
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781474624947
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780304356874
- Publisher:
- Orion
- Date of Addition:
- 09/09/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Tempe and Timothy Brickhill
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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