Stalag Luft III

1999 History

Author : Arthur A. Durand
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 437/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Stalag Luft III written by Arthur A. Durand. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalag Luft III is the camp most commonly associated with the Allied prisoner of war experience in World War II Germany. Housing mainly British and American flyers, it was the historical setting for the movie The Great Escape. As with most Hollywood treatments, however, the film blurred the line between fact and fiction. In Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story, Arthur A. Durand offers the first comprehensive historical examination of what camp life was actually like, from the mundane drudgery of the prisoners' daily lives to their harrowing struggle for survival against an enemy responsible for the deaths of millions. Relying on coded records kept by appointed camp historians, as well as personal interviews, letters, logs, diaries, and recently declassified government documents, Durand expertly combines impressive scholarship with dramatic narrative.

The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III

2024-03-05 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Jens Müller
Release : 2024-03-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 929/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III by : Jens Müller

Download or read book The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III written by Jens Müller. This book was released on 2024-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Stalag Luft III

2019-03-30 History

Author : Charles Messenger
Release : 2019-03-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 496/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Stalag Luft III written by Charles Messenger. This book was released on 2019-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, codenamed 'Big X'. In March 1944, Bushell masterminded an attempt to smuggle hundreds of POWs down a tunnel built right under the noses of their guards. In fact, 76 Allied airmen clambered into the tunnel and only three made successful escapes.This remarkable breakout would be immortalized 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.

The True Story of the Great Escape

2019-08-30 History

Author : Jonathan F. Vance
Release : 2019-08-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 399/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The True Story of the Great Escape written by Jonathan F. Vance. This book was released on 2019-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real history behind the classic war movie and the men who plotted the daring escape from a Nazi POW camp. Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24th–25th 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had never seen. The prison break from Stalag Luft III in eastern Germany was the largest of its kind in the Second World War. Seventy-nine Allied soldiers and airmen made it outside the wire—but only three made it outside Nazi Germany. Fifty were executed by the Gestapo. In this book Jonathan Vance tells the incredible story that was made famous by the 1963 film The Great Escape. It is a classic tale of prisoners and their wardens in a battle of wits and wills. The brilliantly conceived escape plan is overshadowed only by the colorful, daring (and sometimes very funny) crew who executed it—literally under the noses of German guards. From the men’s first days in Stalag Luft III and the forming of bonds among them, to the tunnel building, amazing escape, and eventual capture, Vance’s history is a vivid, compelling look at one of the greatest “exfiltration” missions of all time. “Shows the variety and depth of the men sent into harm’s way during World War II, something emphasized by the population of Stalag Luft III. Most of the Allied POWs were flyers, with all the technical, tactical and planning skills that profession requires. Such men are independent thinkers, craving open air and wide-open spaces, which meant that an obsession with escape was almost inevitable.” —John D. Gresham

Tunneling to Freedom

2019-05-01 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Nel Yomtov
Release : 2019-05-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 32X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tunneling to Freedom written by Nel Yomtov. This book was released on 2019-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the incredible story of the brave men who tunneled to escape a German prisoner-of-war camp. Readers will learn about the planners, task leaders, and key players of the escape from Stalag Luft III.

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