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Great Escapes
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Artikel-Nr:
9780752444901
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2008
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Terry C. Treadwell
Gewicht:
567 g
Format:
236x155x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Terry Treadwell served in the RAF and is currently a research and project officer for the RAF Escaping Society. He is an aviation author and researcher and European correspondent of Naval Aviation News and Wings of Gold magazine. He lives in Bournemouth.
For most prisoners of war, life was nothing like such films as The Great Escape, but for a few brave escapees, fact was more extraordinary than fiction. Using personal accounts, authentic reports from German guards, and debrief documents in the National Archives, this is the true story of the many exciting escape attempts from POW camps during the Second World War. Some were successful, others not, but in each case the inspired methods devised and executed by the prisoners show bravery and ingenuity on a greater scale than any film. With incredible stories such as the "Wooden Horse," the "French Tunnel," and the "Colditz Ghost," this ground-breaking book tells the stories of some of the bravest men in history.