Book Description
True stories of seven daring escapes by prisoners of war during World War II.
Author : George Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590410243
True stories of seven daring escapes by prisoners of war during World War II.
Author : George Sullivan
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 1988-09-01
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : 9780590438001
A collection of true stories of seven daring escapes by prisoners of war during World War II.
Author : Mark Felton
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 125007374X
Non-fiction that reads like a novel! A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic escape and the real-life adventures that followed.
Author : Damon Lance Gause
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781568959115
Incredible 159-day escape from the infamous Bataan Death March and harrowing voyage across the enemy-held Pacific in a leaky, wooden boat during World War II.
Author : Harvey E. Gann
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Barbara Bond
Publisher : Times Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Escapes
ISBN : 9780008141301
The definitive history of MI9's emergency escape and evasion mapping programme and the contribution the maps made to victory in 1945. Fascinating stories of secret maps used by prisoners of World War II.
Author : Keith Warren Lloyd
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493038915
Dramatic, highly readable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sailors from an American prisoner-of-war camp. The disciplined Germans tunneled unnoticed through rock-hard, sunbaked soil and crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert. They were heading for Mexico, where there were sympathizers who could help them return to the Fatherland. It was the only large-scale domestic escape by foreign prisoners in US history. Wrung from contemporary newspaper articles, interviews, and first-person accounts from escapees and the law enforcement officers who pursued them, The Great Desert Escape brings history to life. At the US Army’s prisoner-of-war camp at Papago Park just outside of Phoenix, life was, at the best of times, uneasy for the German Kreigsmariners. On the outside of their prison fences were Americans who wanted nothing more than to see them die slow deaths for their perceived roles in killing fathers and brothers in Europe. Many of these German prisoners had heard rumors of execution for those who escaped. On the inside were rabid Nazis determined to get home and continue the fight. At Papago Park in March 1944, a newly arrived prisoner who was believed to have divulged classified information to the Americans was murdered—hung in one of the barracks by seven of his fellow prisoners. The prisoners of war dug a tunnel 6 feet deep and 178 feet long, finishing in December 1944. Once free of the camp, the 25 Germans scattered. The cold and rainy weather caused several of the escapees to turn themselves in. One attempted to hitchhike his way into Phoenix, his accent betraying him. Others lived like coyotes among the rocks and caves overlooking Papago Park. All the while, the escapees were pursued by soldiers, federal agents, police and Native American trackers determined to stop them from reaching Mexico and freedom.
Author : Stephen Dando-Collins
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1250087570
The story opens in the stinking latrines of the Schubin camp as an American and a Canadian lead the digging of a tunnel which enabled a break involving 36 prisoners of war (POWs). The Germans then converted the camp to Oflag 64, to exclusively hold US Army officers, with more than 1500 Americans ultimately housed there. Plucky Americans attempted a variety of escapes until January, 1945, only to be thwarted every time. Then, with the Red Army advancing closer every day, camp commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider received orders from Berlin to march his prisoners west. Game on! Over the next few days, 250 US Army officers would succeed in escaping east to link up with the Russians - although they would prove almost as dangerous as the Nazis - only to be ordered once they arrived back in the United States not to talk about their adventures. Within months, General Patton would launch a bloody bid to rescue the remaining Schubin Americans. In The Big Break, this previously untold story follows POWs including General Eisenhower's personal aide, General Patton's son-in-law, and Ernest Hemingway's eldest son as they struggled to be free. Military historian and Paul Brickhill biographer Stephen Dando-Collins expertly chronicles this gripping story of Americans determined to be free, brave Poles risking their lives to help them, and dogmatic Nazis determined to stop them.
Author : Paul Brickhill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393325799
Records the efforts of six hundred British and American officers to escape from a Nazi prison camp.
Author : Jens Müller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1493077929
A thrilling, first-person account of one of the most famous prison escapes of World War II. Jens Müller was one of only three men who successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III on the night of March 24, 1944—the breakout that later became the basis for the famous film The Great Escape. His memoir tells how Müller, a pilot in one of the RAF’s Norwegian squadrons, was shot down by the Luftwaffe over the English Channel in June 1942. After some days at sea in his Spitfire’s life raft, he made it to land in Belgium but was soon captured by the occupying Germans and sent as a prisoner of war to Stalag Luft III (in what is now Zagan, Poland). Müller vividly describes life in the camp, how the escapes were planned, and relates the compelling story of his personal breakout. Together with Per Bergsland, he managed to make it to the coast and stowed away on a ship to Gothenburg, Sweden. The two men eventually reached RAF Leuchars base in Scotland.