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Zero Night - The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape (Paperback)
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Zero Night - The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape (Paperback)
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'The story of a lesser known - but perhaps the greatest - escape of
Second World War prisoners has been told in a new book.' The
Scotsman 'This is undeniably history as it should be told and a
thundering good read.'? History of War Magazine Oflag VI-B,
Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' -
40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It
was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the
escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden
scaling contraptions. This was the notorious 'Warburg Wire Job',
described by fellow prisoner and fighter ace Douglas Bader as 'the
most brilliant escape conception of this war'. Months of meticulous
planning and secret training hung in the balance during three
minutes of mayhem as prisoners charged the camp's double perimeter
fences. Telling this remarkable story in full for the first time,
historian Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape
itself and the adventures of those who eluded the Germans, as well
as the courage of the civilians who risked their lives to help them
in enemy territory. Fantastically intimate and told with a
novelist's eye for drama and detail, this is a rip-roaring
adventure story, all the more thrilling for being true.
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