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Author | : George Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780590410243 |
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True stories of seven daring escapes by prisoners of war during World War II.
Author | : Mark Felton |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 125007374X |
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Non-fiction that reads like a novel! A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic escape and the real-life adventures that followed.
Author | : Col. Robert Barr Smith |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493026631 |
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Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis. Their ingenuity knew no bounds: they went over the barbed wire surrounding them and under it as well; they built tunnels of enormous length and complexity, often working with only their bare hands. They concealed themselves in their captors’ vehicles and hitched rides to freedom. They became world-class forgers and tailors; they stole anything that might be useful to their escapes that wasn’t actually red-hot or nailed down. Some of them made it to freedom; some did not. Many of those who failed simply tried again and again until they succeeded. Some of the escapers who were caught were murdered by the Japanese or the German Gestapo. That did not stop others from risking torture or death to gain their freedom. Many men whose break was initially successful would not have survived save for the dangerous, selfless help of civilians, especially in occupied Europe and the Philippine Islands. The stories in The Greatest Escapes of WWII highlight the courage, endurance, and ingenuity of Allied prisoners, chronicling their ceaseless efforts and the alarm that spread far and wide when one or more escaped. These escapes tied up thousands of Axis soldiers who might otherwise have prolonged the war for many more bloody months. The troops committed to guard the Allied prisoners and recapture escapers numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
Author | : Alan Burgess |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781555840334 |
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Recounts the escape attempt of seventy-six Allied POWs, three of whom made it to safety, and describes the trial of the Gestapo who killed recaptured POWs
Author | : Damon Lance Gause |
Publisher | : Wheeler Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781568959115 |
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Incredible 159-day escape from the infamous Bataan Death March and harrowing voyage across the enemy-held Pacific in a leaky, wooden boat during World War II.
Author | : Neil Churches |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2022-05-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1529060362 |
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The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War – organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy. In August 1944, the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in present-day Slovenia. The escape was organized not by officers, but by two ordinary soldiers: Australian Ralph Churches (a bank clerk before the war) and Londoner Les Laws (a jazz pianist by profession), with the help of U.S. intelligence officer Franklin Lindsay. The American was on a mission to work with the partisans: a group who moved like ghosts through the Alps, ambushing and evading Nazi forces. Told here for the first time is the story of how these three men came together – along with the partisans – to plan and execute the escape is told here for the first time. The Greatest Escape, written by Ralph Churches’ son Neil, takes us from Ralph and Les’s capture in Greece in 1941 and their brutal journey to Maribor, with many POWs dying along the way, to the horror of seeing Russian prisoners starved to death in the camp. The book uncovers the hidden story of Allied intelligence operations in Slovenia, and shows how Ralph became involved. We follow the escapees on a nail-biting 160-mile journey across the Alps, pursued by German soldiers, ambushed and betrayed. And yet, of the 106 men who escaped, 100 made it to safety. Thanks to research across seven countries, The Greatest Escape is no longer a secret. It is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of the last century.
Author | : Jacqueline Cook |
Publisher | : Random House Australia |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0857981145 |
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Bigger than The Great Escape. The story of the first successful mass tunnel escape from a PoW camp in WWI Germany. Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp was a World War I prisoner-of-war camp for British Empire officers located in Lower Saxony, Germany. It opened in September 1917, and closed with the final repatriation of prisoners in December 1918.
Author | : Paul Brickhill |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780393325799 |
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Records the efforts of six hundred British and American officers to escape from a Nazi prison camp.
Author | : Barbara Bond |
Publisher | : Times Books |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Escapes |
ISBN | : 9780008141301 |
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The definitive history of MI9's emergency escape and evasion mapping programme and the contribution the maps made to victory in 1945. Fascinating stories of secret maps used by prisoners of World War II.
Author | : Stephen Dando-Collins |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2017-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250087570 |
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The story opens in the stinking latrines of the Schubin camp as an American and a Canadian lead the digging of a tunnel which enabled a break involving 36 prisoners of war (POWs). The Germans then converted the camp to Oflag 64, to exclusively hold US Army officers, with more than 1500 Americans ultimately housed there. Plucky Americans attempted a variety of escapes until January, 1945, only to be thwarted every time. Then, with the Red Army advancing closer every day, camp commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider received orders from Berlin to march his prisoners west. Game on! Over the next few days, 250 US Army officers would succeed in escaping east to link up with the Russians - although they would prove almost as dangerous as the Nazis - only to be ordered once they arrived back in the United States not to talk about their adventures. Within months, General Patton would launch a bloody bid to rescue the remaining Schubin Americans. In The Big Break, this previously untold story follows POWs including General Eisenhower's personal aide, General Patton's son-in-law, and Ernest Hemingway's eldest son as they struggled to be free. Military historian and Paul Brickhill biographer Stephen Dando-Collins expertly chronicles this gripping story of Americans determined to be free, brave Poles risking their lives to help them, and dogmatic Nazis determined to stop them.