The Great Escape - Paul Brickhill

Category: Adventure, History, Military
Language: English
Keywords: Escape POW WWII

Written by Paul Brickhill
Read by Roger Davis
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

The Great Escape
By: Paul Brickhill
Narrated by: Roger Davis
Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 16-09-2021
Language: English
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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

One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The Great Escape tells how more than 600 men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year, they dug tunnels, and those who weren’t digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had escaped. All of this was conducted under the very noses of their prison guards. When the right night came, the actual escape itself was timed to the split second - but, of course, not everything went according to plan….

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©2021 Paul Brickhill (P)2021 Weidenfeld & Nicolson