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Author : George Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590410243
True stories of seven daring escapes by prisoners of war during World War II.
Author : George Sullivan
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 1988-09-01
Category : 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
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : 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 : Robert Barr Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : 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 : Damon Lance Gause
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : 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 : Alan Burgess
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Escapes
ISBN : 9781591140979
First published in 1990 and based on sources not available for Paul Brickhill's earlier work, the book tells how on the night of March 24, 1944, seventy-six Allied POWs slid through a 350-foot tunnel and out of a high-security German prison camp, into history.
Author : Keith Warren Lloyd
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493038915
Dramatic, highly readable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sailors from an American prisoner-of-war camp. The disciplined Germans tunneled unnoticed through rock-hard, sunbaked soil and crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert. They were heading for Mexico, where there were sympathizers who could help them return to the Fatherland. It was the only large-scale domestic escape by foreign prisoners in US history. Wrung from contemporary newspaper articles, interviews, and first-person accounts from escapees and the law enforcement officers who pursued them, The Great Desert Escape brings history to life. At the US Army’s prisoner-of-war camp at Papago Park just outside of Phoenix, life was, at the best of times, uneasy for the German Kreigsmariners. On the outside of their prison fences were Americans who wanted nothing more than to see them die slow deaths for their perceived roles in killing fathers and brothers in Europe. Many of these German prisoners had heard rumors of execution for those who escaped. On the inside were rabid Nazis determined to get home and continue the fight. At Papago Park in March 1944, a newly arrived prisoner who was believed to have divulged classified information to the Americans was murdered—hung in one of the barracks by seven of his fellow prisoners. The prisoners of war dug a tunnel 6 feet deep and 178 feet long, finishing in December 1944. Once free of the camp, the 25 Germans scattered. The cold and rainy weather caused several of the escapees to turn themselves in. One attempted to hitchhike his way into Phoenix, his accent betraying him. Others lived like coyotes among the rocks and caves overlooking Papago Park. All the while, the escapees were pursued by soldiers, federal agents, police and Native American trackers determined to stop them from reaching Mexico and freedom.
Author : Ted Barris
Publisher : Dundurn.com
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : 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 : Jacqueline Cook
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0857981145
Bigger than The Great Escape. The story of the first successful mass tunnel escape from a PoW camp in WWI Germany. Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp was a World War I prisoner-of-war camp for British Empire officers located in Lower Saxony, Germany. It opened in September 1917, and closed with the final repatriation of prisoners in December 1918.
Author : Barbara Bond
Publisher : Times Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2015
Category : 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.