The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams

The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams

Eric Williams, Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, the infamous German POW camp. Digging an underground tunnel hidden beneath a wooden vaulting horse, he managed to escape after ten months and, accompanied by a fellow officer, made his way back to England. In this thinly fictionalized retelling, Williams relates his story in three distinct phases: the construction of a tunnel (its entrance camouflaged by the wooden vaulting horse in the exercise yard) and hiding the large quantities of sand he dug; the escape; and the journey on foot and by train to the port of Stettin, where Williams and his fellow escapee stowed away aboard a Danish ship, the Norensen. From painstakingly digging the tunnel to secretly depositing the dirt and gravel around the camp to dodging searchlights and search dogs and climbing barbed wire fences, this is an escape story hard to beat. For sheer heroism, courage and perserverance, this classic is arguably the most ingenious POW escape of WWII. The Wooden Horse became a legend among servicemen long before its publication in 1949 and remained one ever since.

Eric Williams was an RAF pilot in WWII. He was shot down over Germany and managed to evade capture for three days before being found and sent to prison in Poland. After a successful escape, he was recaptured and transferred to Stalag Luft III, from which he also escaped. He died in 1983.

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ISBN 13	9781628736694
ISBN 10	1628736690
Title	The Wooden Horse
Author	Eric Williams
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Skyhorse Publishing
Year published	2014-07-01
Number of pages	272
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