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Work InformationThe Long Way Home: The Other Great Escape by John McCallum
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Excellent book. 3 young Scottish solders (WW II) successfully escape from in POW camp in Poland. Told by one of the soldiers involved. They had a lot of near misses including being at the train station when The Great Escape takes place. Recommended by KGS. pub 2005. ( ) no reviews | add a review
At the age of nineteen, Glasgow-born John McCallum signed up as a Supplementary Reservist in the Signal Corps. A little over a year later, he was in France, working frantically to set up communication lines as Europe once more hurtled towards war. Wounded and captured at Boulogne, he was sent to the notorious Stalag VIIIB prison camp, together with his brother, Jimmy, and friend Joe Harkin. Ingenious and resourceful, the three men set about planning their escape. With the help of Traudl, a local girl whom John had met while working in nearby Bad Karlsbrunn, they put their plan into action.In an astonishing coincidence, they passed through the town of Sagan, around which the seventy-six airmen of the Great Escape were being pursued and caught. However, unlike most of these other escapees, John, Jimmy and Joe eventually made it to freedom. Now, due to the declassification of documents under the Official Secrets Act, John McCallum is finally able to tell the thrilling story of his adventure, in which he recaptures all the danger, audacity and romance of one of the most daring escapes of the Second World War. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.547243History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War II Prisoners of war; medical and social services Prisioner-of-War CampsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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