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The Tunnel
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Eric Williams |
This book is a prequel to Eric Williams' *The Wooden Horse*. It describes his last mission, his being shot down, his capture, and his experience at his first prison camp, Oflag XXIB. Yes, there is a … |
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Escape from Germany
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Neil Hanson |
July, 1918. Surrounded by steel palisades and barbed-wire fences, Holzminden was the most heavily guarded POW camp in the world. To escape would take boundless ingenuity and nerves of steel. But on t… |
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Tunnelling To Freedom
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John Fancy |
xxii, 234 p. : 20 cm |
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Almost a great escape
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Tyler Trafford |
Novelist Tyler Trafford reconstructs the story of his mother's life--from her youth as a Montreal debutante to her final days as a casualty of an unhappy marriage--as he uncovers the mystery of her r… |
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The cooler king
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Patrick Bishop |
The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of… |
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Once a hussar
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Ray Ellis |
Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this well-written, candid, and perceptive memoir of the conflict he knew as a young man s… |
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Greatest Escapes of World War II
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Robert B. Smith,Laurence J. Yadon |
xv, 248 pages ; 23 cm |
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The great escape from Stalag Luft III
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Tim Carroll |
The true story of one of the most heroic feats of World War II...the daring prison camp breakout that inspired the classic film *The Great Escape*.
Stalag Luft III was one of the Germans' "escape-… |
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The last escape
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Nichol, John |
As WW2 drew to a close, hundreds of thousands of British and American prisoners of war, held in camps in Nazi-occupied Europe, faced the prospect that they would never get home alive. In the depths o… |
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You'll die In Singapore
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Charles McCormac |
With sixteen other POWs, author Charles McCormac broke out from his POW camp in Japanese-occupied Singapore and began a two-thousand-mile escape from Singapore, through the jungles of Indonesia to Au… |
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Project Lessons from The Great Escape (Stalag Luft III)
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Mark Kozak-Holland |
While you might think your project plan is perfect, would you bet your life on it? In World War II, a group of 220 captured airmen did just that -- they bet they staked the lives of everyone in the … |
OL8915042W |