The Great Escape, Paul Brickhill
The Great Escape, Paul Brickhill
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The Great Escape

Author: Paul Brickhill

Narrator: Robert Whitfield

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2009


Synopsis

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 for every hour, every day, and every night for more than a year. With only their bare hands and crude homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored German clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from the Germans who tenaciously prowled the compounds. And against all odds, they pulled off a daring mass escape from a German POW camp.

About Paul Brickhill

Paul Brickhill (1916–1991) was an Australian journalist and writer whose World War II books were turned into popular movies. He was directly involved with the escape from Stalag Luft III, although he was one of the prisoners left behind. After the war, he wrote the first major account of the escape in The Great Escape (1950), bringing the incident to a wide public attention. He went on to write two other bestselling war books, The Dam Busters and Reach for the Sky. All three books were made into feature films.


Reviews

//This book chronicles prison escape attempts made by POW’s during WW2. One of which is the author, who assisted in the Great Escape. // After reading the book, it is hard to imagine the utter anguish these prisoners had to go through. Day in and day out, you dig, plot, plan, engineer, starve, scrou......more