The Great Escape: The Full Dramatic Story with Contributions from Survivors and Their Families - On the night of March 24, 1944, 76 Allied RAF officers escaped from Stalag-Luft III, Nazi Germanys most secure POW camp. It was the biggest, most daring break-out of World War II. The tenacity and ingenuity of the prisoners has become the stuff of legend, as they carried out their plan to dig the longest and most sophisticated tunnel ever conceived. But the men paid a high price for their braveryof the 73 men recaptured, 50 were brutally executed on Hitlers direct orders. The tireless RAF investigation into the atrocity offers a chilling insight into the last hours of the victims and the actions of the killers. Drawing on the meticulous research carried out for the war crimes trial, as well as interviews with survivors and families of the murdered men, Anton Gill gives us the definitive account of the escape and its shocking aftermath. Among the authors many books are The Journey Back from Hell and Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim.


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 ⚡️Book Title : The Great Escape: The Full Dramatic Story with Contributions from Survivors and Their Families
⚡Book Author : Anton Gill
⚡Page : 288 pages
⚡Published November 1st 2002 by Headline Book Publishing (first published 2002)

The Great Escape: The Full Dramatic Story with Contributions from Survivors and Their Families

On the night of March 24, 1944, 76 Allied RAF officers escaped from Stalag-Luft III, Nazi Germanys most secure POW camp. It was the biggest, most daring break-out of World War II. The tenacity and ingenuity of the prisoners has become the stuff of legend, as they carried out their plan to dig the longest and most sophisticated tunnel ever conceived. But the men paid a high price for their braveryof the 73 men recaptured, 50 were brutally executed on Hitlers direct orders. The tireless RAF investigation into the atrocity offers a chilling insight into the last hours of the victims and the actions of the killers. Drawing on the meticulous research carried out for the war crimes trial, as well as interviews with survivors and families of the murdered men, Anton Gill gives us the definitive account of the escape and its shocking aftermath. Among the authors many books are The Journey Back from Hell and Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim.