The Great Escape

✍ Scribed by Brickhill, Paul

• Book ID: 106877485
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 147 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780393325799

✦ Synopsis

Review

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_

One of the great true stories of the war, and one of the greatest escape narratives of all time. -- ___ San Francisco Chronicle_

Product Description

"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 movie starring Steve McQueen. 16 pages of photographs.