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The Real Great Escape (Paperback)
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The Real Great Escape (Paperback)
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List price R417
Loot Price R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
You Save R74 (18%)
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In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war
camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag
Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive
escapers ever known. They were led by Squadron Leader Roger
Bushell, code-named 'Big X', who masterminded an attempt to smuggle
hundreds of POWs down a tunnel built right under the noses of their
guards. The escape would come to be immortalised in the famous film
The Great Escape, in which the ingenuity and bravery of the men was
rightly celebrated. The plan involved multiple tunnels, hundreds of
forged documents, as well as specially made German uniforms and
civilian clothing. In this book Guy Walters takes a fresh look at
this remarkable event and asks the question, what was the true
story, not the movie version? He also examines what the escape
really achieved, and the nature of the man who led it. The Real
Great Escape is the first account to draw on a newly-released cache
of documents from Roger Bushell's family, including letters from
Bushell, that reveals much about this remarkable man, his life and
experiences during the war, and the planning of the escape attempt
that was to make him famous. The result is a compelling and
authoritative re-evaluation of the most iconic escape story of the
Second World War.
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