The Great Escape
By Paul Brickhill.
Filmed as The Great
Escape (1963), directed by John Sturges.
Published by W. W.
Norton & Company.
Published 1950.
ISBN-10: 0393325792
ISBN-13: 9780393325799
Description:
"One of the great
true stories of the war, and one of the greatest escape narratives of all
time." – San Francisco Chronicle.
"Absorbing...
spine-tingling... puts the average war book so far in the shadow it's not even funny."
– Dallas Times Herald.
"For sheer
suspense, puts the fictioneers to shame." – Boston Globe.
"A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale." – Philadelphia
Inquirer.
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 1963 war film of the same name
starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough.
16 pages of photographs.
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