

The Great Escape
Author: Paul Brickhill
Narrator: Robert Whitfield
Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/11/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
Author: Paul Brickhill
Narrator: Robert Whitfield
Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/11/2009
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
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.
//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