Stalag Luft III : Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Name: Stalag Luft III
Brand: Greenhill Books
SKU: 9781784384463
Price: 2700 KES
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ISBN: 9781784384463

by Charles Messenger

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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

Product Classification: Photographs: collections European history Second World War Prisoners of war European history Second World War

KSh 2,700.00

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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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