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Loading... Colditz: The Untold Story of World War II's Great Escapesby Henry Chancellor
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Well researched, well written, and my personal interest comes from a past friendship in Switzerland with a woman, Jane Cabot (also a cousin of Sandy Rotival) who married one of the escapees in 1943 after his escape to Switzerland in 1942 from Colditz. ( ) A wonderful review, not definitive, but if you want that information, there is a series of excellent appendices. It did give a very good overview & narrative over the course of the war & what happened to the inmates throughout. Very moving, especially towards the end. A very good overall summary & highly readable no reviews | add a review
Colditz high security camp contained every presistent escaper, trouble maker and valuable hostage captured by the Germans in World War II. It was considered escape proof but the very opposite proved to be true. The prisoners pooled their collected talents to create the greatest escape academy of the war. Now, for the first time in Colditz, Henry Chancellor tells the prisoners' own story. Many have never spoken before but using over fifty original interviews, the English, French, Dutch and Polish officers, and their guards describe their experiences in the notorious castle, and their escape across Nazi Germany. This book grew out of the television series, Escape From Colditz, which was twelve years in the making, won sweeping critical praise and has been shown around the world. It is a story of breathtaking ingenuity and daring, a game of wit between captives and captors. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.54History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War IILC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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