The Great Escape - Hardcover

Brickhill, Paul

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091410215 ISBN 13: 9780091410216

Publisher: Hyperion Books, 1981

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With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes.

They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from the German "ferrets" who prowled the compounds with nerve-racking tenacity and suspicion.

It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men -- every single one of them, every minute, every hour, every day, and every night for more than a year.

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Review:

"For sheer suspense, puts the fictioneers to shame."

Absorbing...spine-tingling...puts the average war book so far in the shadow it's not even funny. "

One of the great true stories of the war, and one of the greatest escape narratives of all time.

Absorbing... spine-tingling... puts the average war book so far in the shadow it's not even funny.

For sheer suspense, puts the fictioneers to shame.

Book Description:

The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic film.

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