Stalag Luft III: An Official History of the 'Great Escape' PoW Camp (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2017-03-30
Förlag
Frontline Books
Medarbetare
Grehan, John
Illustratör/Fotograf
Single 8-page plate section
Illustrationer
Single 8-page plate section
Volymtitel
No. 3
Dimensioner
236 x 165 x 36 mm
Vikt
681 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781473883055

Stalag Luft III: An Official History of the 'Great Escape' PoW Camp

An Official History of the POW Camp of the Great Escape

av John Grehan
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2017-03-30

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Opened in March 1942 to house captured Allied airmen, particularly officers, Stammlager Luft III at Sagan was built to make escapeespecially tunnelingparticularly difficult. This did not stop the prisoners who dug through more than one hundred yards of loose sand, enabling seventy-six men to flee. All but three of the men were recaptured, however, and fifty were executed by the Germans. This camp was known for two famous prisoner escapes that took place there by tunneling, which were depicted in the films The Wooden Horse (1950) and The Great Escape (1963).The official history of the camp was prepared for the War Office but was never released to the general public. It explains the German administration and running of the camp, the food and conditions the prisoners endured, and the means by which morale was maintained under such trying circumstances. Considerable space is devoted to the escapes and their careful preparation as well as the anti-escape measures undertaken by the guards. This account provides the reader with an accurate and unprecedented insight into life in a German POW camp in the latter years of World War II.
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John Grehan has written, edited, or contributed to more than three hundred military history books, journals and magazines. He is the former assistant editor of Britain at War magazine.

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