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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Tunnel The Tunnel 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 … OL10537323W
Escape from Germany Escape from Germany 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… OL16473756W
Tunnelling To Freedom Tunnelling To Freedom John Fancy xxii, 234 p. : 20 cm OL17393734W
Almost a great escape Almost a great escape 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… OL17902807W
The cooler king The cooler king 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… OL20936786W
Once a hussar Once a hussar 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… OL21182866W
Greatest Escapes of World War II Greatest Escapes of World War II Robert B. Smith,Laurence J. Yadon xv, 248 pages ; 23 cm OL21824359W
The great escape from Stalag Luft III The great escape from Stalag Luft III 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-… OL5736244W
The last escape The last escape 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… OL5876137W
You'll die In Singapore You'll die In Singapore 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… OL5879814W
Project Lessons from The Great Escape (Stalag Luft III) Project Lessons from The Great Escape (Stalag Luft III) 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