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The Greatest Escape - A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure (Paperback)
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The Greatest Escape - A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure (Paperback)
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The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war
escape in of the Second World War – organized by an Australian
bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy. In August
1944, the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took
place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in
present-day Slovenia. The escape was organized not by officers, but
by two ordinary soldiers: Australian Ralph Churches (a bank clerk
before the war) and Londoner Les Laws (a jazz pianist by
profession), with the help of U.S. intelligence officer Franklin
Lindsay. The American was on a mission to work with the partisans:
a group who moved like ghosts through the Alps, ambushing and
evading Nazi forces. Told here for the first time is the story of
how these three men came together – along with the partisans –
to plan and execute the escape is told here for the first time. The
Greatest Escape, written by Ralph Churches’ son Neil, takes us
from Ralph and Les’s capture in Greece in 1941 and their brutal
journey to Maribor, with many POWs dying along the way, to the
horror of seeing Russian prisoners starved to death in the camp.
The book uncovers the hidden story of Allied intelligence
operations in Slovenia, and shows how Ralph became involved. We
follow the escapees on a nail-biting 160-mile journey across the
Alps, pursued by German soldiers, ambushed and betrayed. And yet,
of the 106 men who escaped, 100 made it to safety. Thanks to
research across seven countries, The Greatest Escape is no longer a
secret. It is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of the
last century.
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