The Great Escape
Author(s): Paul Brickhill
They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. 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 one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year. Made into the classic movie starring Steve McQueen.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : WW Norton & Co
- : WW Norton & Co
- : 0.282
- : 30 June 2004
- : 212mm X 142mm X 20mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Paul Brickhill
- : Paperback
- : 4-Aug
- : 940.547243
- : 304
- : illustrations