The Great Escape: The Untold Story
Book Details
Author(s)
Ted Barris
Publisher
Dundurn
ISBN / ASIN
1459728440
ISBN-13
9781459728448
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#920,372
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Description
On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty airmen crawled through a 400-foot-long tunnel, code-named "Harry," and dashed from Stalag Luft III, the infamous WWII German POW camp. It became known as The Great Escape. The breakout took a year to plan, involved 2,000 POWs, and prompted a massive manhunt across occupied Europe. All but three escapers were recaptured; on Hitler's orders fifty were murdered.Â
Bestselling author TED BARRIS has revisited the story, made famous by the Hollywood movie in 1963. But he has recounted this unique battle of wits and determination through the voices of those involved. With forty years of experience as a journalist, broadcaster, and historian, he has assembled original interviews, memoirs, letters, diaries, and personal photos to reconstruct the untold story. This is Barris's seventeenth book, created around his duties as a professor of journalism at Centennial College, and his freelance work for newspapers, magazines and national radio and TV. He is based in Toronto.
