Stalag Luft III : Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Images of War
ISBN-10
1784384461
ISBN-13
9781784384463
Publisher
Greenhill Books
Imprint
Greenhill Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 4th, 2019
Print length
144 Pages
Weight
478 grams
Dimensions
19.30 x 24.60 x 1.00 cms
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Photographic history of the POW camp that inspired the film The Great Escape.
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, code-named 'Big X'. In March 1944, Bushell masterminded an attempt to smuggle hundreds of POWs down a tunnel build right under the notes of their guards. In fact, only 79 Allied airmen clambered into the tunnel and only three made successful escapes. This remarkable escape would be immortalised 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.
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