Paul Brickhill

The Great Escape

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One of the most jaw-dropping accounts you will ever read: it truly puts fiction to shame. This is the compelling true story of how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp came together to achieve an extraordinary break-out. With only bare hands and the crudest of tools they dug tunnels, forged passports, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms to wear once they had escaped. The operation was as delicate and as deadly as a ticking bomb and was conducted under the noses of the increasingly suspicious guards. It demanded absolute commitment and nerves of steel from every man, every minute, every hour, every day for more tha… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-304-35687-4
EAN: 9780304356874
Produktnummer: 14437087
Verlag: Orion
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.6 cm x D1.9 cm 234 g
Gewicht: 234

Über den Autor

During the war Paul Brickhill was shot down over German territory and sent to a prisoner of war camp. After the war he wrote about the numerous escape attempts in which he was involved in THE GREAT ESCAPE. REACH FOR THE SKY, and THE DAMBUSTERS RAID are his most famous works.