The Wooden Horse: The Classic World War II Story of Escape
An epic adventure-the most brilliant escape and evasion from the Nazis ever written. Eric Williams, a 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 h…
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Weitere Autoren: Freeman, Gregory A. (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-1-62873-669-4
- EAN: 9781628736694
- Produktnummer: 36995533
- Verlag: Skyhorse Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B14.7 cm x D2.0 cm 218 g
- Gewicht: 218
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Eric Williams was an RAF pilot in World War II. He was shot down over Germany and managed to evade capture for three days before being found and sent to a 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.Gregory A. Freeman is an award-winning writer with more than twenty-five years' experience in journalism and narrative nonfiction. His books include The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II; The Gathering Wind: Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea; and The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys.
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