Tunnelling into Colditz - Hardcover

Rogers, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709028040 ISBN 13: 9780709028048

Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

'Jim Rogers was well loved for his particular and compelling talent for story telling while a prisoner in Colditz. According to his friends - and in particular Pat Reid in his books - his warmth, anecdotes, humour, his way with words as well as his unruffled nature, all contributed invaluably to the morale of the camp. This book evokes all those qualities. Utterly unpretentious, full of wonderful stories and insights which provoke astonishment, delight and laughter in good measure. Who could fail to be delighted with the story of the Frenchman who caught hundreds of wasps, tied a note to each saying "Deutschland Kaput" and launched them towards the local town? Not all was schoolboy fun and games however. There was much that was deadly serious: hunger, the threat of death, and of course the tunnelling. Jim was a mining engineer - a useful man to have around - and, of course, he offers here some extraordinary details of the escape attempts. In fact his book was actually mentioned as having been useful to the H-Block tunnellers at Long Kesh!'

Edition details

• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0709028040
• ISBN 13: 9780709028048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240