Description
Product ID: | 9780553826111 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Real Great Escape |
Authors: | Author: Guy Walters |
Page Count: | 592 |
Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, Second World War, Second World War |
Description: | Select Guide Rating In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. In this book Guy Walters takes a fresh look at this remarkable event and asks the question, what was the true story, not the movie version? This title examines what the escape really achieved, and the nature of the man who led it. In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. They were led by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, code-named ''Big X'', who masterminded an attempt to smuggle hundreds of POWs down a tunnel built right under the noses of their guards. |
Imprint Name: | Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of |
Publisher Name: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2014-03-27 |