Great Escape The Untold Story

Name: Great Escape The Untold Story
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ISBN: 9781459728448

ISBN-10: 1459728440

ISBN-13: 9781459728448

Edition: 2014

Authors: Ted Barris

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On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German POW compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape," an intricate breakout more than a year in the making, involving as many as 2,000 POWs working with extraordinary co-ordination, intelligence, and daring. Yet within a few days, all but three of the escapees were recaptured. Subsequently, fifty were murdered, cremated, and buried in a remote corner of the prison camp.But most don’t know the real story behind The Great Escape. Now, on the eve of its 70th anniversary, Ted Barris writes of the key…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 10/25/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Ted Barris is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He is a full-time professor of journalism at Centennial College in Toronto. He has written more than fifteen non-fiction books including Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917; Juno: Canadians at D-Day June 6, 1944; and The Great Escape: A Canadian Story.