Stalag Luft III breakout
Vance, Jonathan Franklin William, 1963-2019
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Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24th-25th 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had never seen before. The prison break from Stalag Luft III in eastern Germany was the largest of its kind in World War II. Seventy nine Allied soldiers and airmen made it outside the wire - but only three made it outside Nazi Germany. Fifty were executed by the Gestapo. Jonathan Vance tells the incredible story that was made famous by the 1963 film, 'The Great Escape'. The escape is a classic tale of prisoner and their wardens in a battle of wits and wills.
Main title:
Stalag Luft III breakout / Jonathan Vance.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Greenhill, 2019.
Collation:
392 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781784384388 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.547243940.547
LC class:
D805.5
Local class:
940.547
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2434460