The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill

The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill

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...

One of the great true stories of the war, and one of the great escape narratives of all time * SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE *
A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale * PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780304356874
ISBN 10	0304356875
Title	The Great Escape
Author	Paul Brickhill
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2000-11-02
Number of pages	288
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