Buy this book on-line CARROLL, TIM: : The Great Escapers: The Full Story of the Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass EscapeSCOTLAND.EDINBURGH & LONDON.MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING,2001. ISBN 1840187956.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,sepia photographic illustrated upper panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Sharp-cornered,bright,clean,publisher's original red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain, pale yellow endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7- 272pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a preface,prologue,9 chapters+epilogue,8pp contemporary b/w photographs/illus/maps, appendices (I+II),a glossary,a select bibliography,and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and contents list/table.
The Great Escape was one of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War.After the attempt to break 200 men out of Herman Goring's 'escape-proof' prisoner-of-war camp,76 Allied officers managed to create havoc behind enemy lines before most were eventually recaptured. Now,60 years after the event,the ingenuity of the masterminds behind this audacious break-out is celebrated.
Tells the story of these men who managed to break free from the supposedly impenetrable barbed wire and watchtowers of Stalag Luft III,Goring's showcase prison camp near Sagan. Some of them were also involved in other daring escape attempts,including the famous Wooden
Horse episode,also turned into a classic film, and the little-known Sachsenhausen break-out, engineered by five Great Escape survivors sent to die in the notorious concentration camp on Hitler's personal orders.
Also revealed is the important role Stalag Luft III played in Allied intelligence operations within occupied Europe: the prisoners developed an intricate espionage network,feeding details of military deployments and strength levels back home and relaxing details about the accuracy of bombing raids.
Tragically,50 of those involved in the Great Escape were murdered by the Gestapo. The author examines their deaths and the post-war investigation to bring their killers to justice.
'The Great Escapers' is an extraordinary story,charted through the experiences of those who lived under the sweeping searchlights of the ominous watchtowers and ending with accounts from the 7 remaining men who broke out that March night 60 years ago - the last of the Great Escapers.
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