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Buch (Softcover): Sachbuch
Stalag Luft III
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
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Greenhill Books Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: EVLQ5NY
EAN: 9781784384463
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Beschreibung
In early 1942 the Third Reich opened a maximum security prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Silesia for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. The escapers were led by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, codenamed 'Big X, ' In March 1944, Bushell masterminded an attempt to smuggle hundreds of POWs down a tunnel built right under the noses of their guards. In fact, 76 Allied airmen clambered into the tunnel and only three made successful escapes. This remarkable breakout would be immortalized in the famous Hollywood film The Great Escape. , in which the bravery of the men was rightly celebrated. Behind the scenes photographs from the film are included in this definitive pictorial work on the most famous POW camp of World War II.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Charles Messenger
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2019
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 144