Great Escapes of World War II
Author | : George Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780590410243 |
True stories of seven daring escapes by prisoners of war during World War II.
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Author | : George Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780590410243 |
True stories of seven daring escapes by prisoners of war during World War II.
Author | : George Sullivan |
Publisher | : Scholastic |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1988-09-01 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war |
ISBN | : 9780590438001 |
A collection of true stories of seven daring escapes by prisoners of war during World War II.
Author | : Mark Felton |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 125007374X |
Non-fiction that reads like a novel! A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic escape and the real-life adventures that followed.
Author | : Barbara Bond |
Publisher | : Times Books |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Escapes |
ISBN | : 9780008141301 |
The definitive history of MI9's emergency escape and evasion mapping programme and the contribution the maps made to victory in 1945. Fascinating stories of secret maps used by prisoners of World War II.
Author | : Damon Lance Gause |
Publisher | : Wheeler Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781568959115 |
Incredible 159-day escape from the infamous Bataan Death March and harrowing voyage across the enemy-held Pacific in a leaky, wooden boat during World War II.
Author | : Ted Barris |
Publisher | : Dundurn.com |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2013-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1771024747 |
One night in 1944, eighty airmen escaped a German POW compound in Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape." Ted Barris writes of the planners, task leaders, and key players in the escape attempt, those who got away, those who didn't, and their families at home.
Author | : Robert Barr Smith |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493026631 |
Throughout WWII, thousands of Allied prisoners dreamed of outwitting their captors and returning to war against the Axis. Their ingenuity knew no bounds: they went over the barbed wire surrounding them and under it as well; they built tunnels of enormous length and complexity, often working with only their bare hands. They concealed themselves in their captors’ vehicles and hitched rides to freedom. They became world-class forgers and tailors; they stole anything that might be useful to their escapes that wasn’t actually red-hot or nailed down. Some of them made it to freedom; some did not. Many of those who failed simply tried again and again until they succeeded. Some of the escapers who were caught were murdered by the Japanese or the German Gestapo. That did not stop others from risking torture or death to gain their freedom. Many men whose break was initially successful would not have survived save for the dangerous, selfless help of civilians, especially in occupied Europe and the Philippine Islands. The stories in The Greatest Escapes of WWII highlight the courage, endurance, and ingenuity of Allied prisoners, chronicling their ceaseless efforts and the alarm that spread far and wide when one or more escaped. These escapes tied up thousands of Axis soldiers who might otherwise have prolonged the war for many more bloody months. The troops committed to guard the Allied prisoners and recapture escapers numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
Author | : Eric Williams |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473819776 |
It is over fifty years since the critics of the day acclaimed The Wooden Horse as a superbly told story of the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War. Millions of readers agreed, and the book became a modern classic. This revised and expanded edition tells the tale. The escape itself was conceived on classical lines. The Greeks built a wooden horse and by means of it got into the city of Troy; in 1943 two British officers built a wooden horse and by means of it got out of a German prison camp. Together with a third companion, they were the only British prisoners ever to escape and reach England from this camp, though many tried. It was Stalag Luft III, designed especially to hold the Germans' most prized captives – Allied aircrew – and considered to be escape-proof. The break from the camp itself is only part of the story. Once outside the wire the escapers were still faced with the problem of getting out of Germany. Fugitives in the midst of a watchful enemy population, they had many close shaves when disaster threatened to overwhelm them – adventures which the reader shares to the full. The fantastic nature of this enterprise, the patience, determination and endurance, above all the steel nerve it demanded from an undernourished physique, are rendered the more impressive by the manner of the telling. The characters are so surely drawn that they could not but be real. Throughout the book runs a vein of humour which alone made those days bearable. The warmth of human companionship born of privation, fear and a common purpose is vividly portrayed.
Author | : George Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |
True stories of seven daring escapes by prisoners of war during World War II.