Description
Product ID: | 9781472100238 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Mammoth Books |
Title: | The Mammoth Book of Prison Breaks |
Authors: | Author: Paul Simpson |
Page Count: | 528 |
Subjects: | True crime, True crime |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Extraordinary accounts of remarkable escapes from maximum-security prisons. True stories of prison breaks including those of Frank Abagnale, whose story is told in Catch Me If You Can; Henri Charrière who claimed to have escaped from the supposedly inescapable Devil''s Island - the true story as opposed to his questionable memoir, Papillon; Bud Day, said to be the only US serviceman ever to have escaped to South Vietnam; the six prisoners who escaped from Death Row in Mecklenburg Correctional Center; and Pascal Payeret, the French armed robber who escaped not once, but twice from French prisons with the help of a helicopter. |
Imprint Name: | Robinson |
Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-07-04 |