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Publisher
Frontline Books
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Opened in March 1942 to house captured Allied airmen, particularly officers, Stammlager Luft III at Sagan was built to make escape particularly difficult, especially tunnelling. This did not stop the prisoners who dug through more than 100 yards of loose sand, enabling 76 men to escape. All but three of the men were recaptured, however, and 50 were executed by the Germans. This official history of the camp was prepared for the War Office but was never...
2) Last chance
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Series
Publisher
Continuum
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Jean-Paul Sartre ceased work on his 'Roads to Freedom' cycle many years before his death, but these works are almost unknown to Anglophone audiences. This volume offers a translation of the unfinished fourth part of the work.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002
Description
As World War II drew to a close, hundreds of thousands of British and American prisoners of war, held in camps in Nazi-occupied Europe, faced the prospect that they would never get home alive. This text is told through the testimony of those heroic men.
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Publisher
Arris
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Between 1939 and 1945 almost 200,000 British and Commonwealth servicemen were held as prisoners of war in Germany. Here are the details of what sort of work they undertook, their living conditions, their relationships with civilian workers, foreign labourers and concentration camp inmates.
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Ravensbruck Concentration Camp is the worst atrocity ever committed solely against women, but today the name of the camp is barely known. From Ravensbruck's earliest days, when Himmler offered his own land for the camp, the book will follow every stage of the story through to the camp's liberation by the Red Army.
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Appears on list
Description
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth. The astonishing inside story, revealed for the first time by bestselling historian Ben Macintyre, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The importance of concentration camps in terms of Nazi history and our modern world cannot be questioned. Dr Nikolaus Wachsmann is the first historian to write a complete history of the camps. Combining the political and the personal, Wachsmann examines the organisation of such an immense genocidal machine, whilst drawing a vivid picture of life inside the camps for the individual prisoner.
Author
Publisher
Icon
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of...
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Publisher
Leo Cooper
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Johnson was shot down in his bomber on his third operational mission, and captured. He describes the harsh conditions he and his fellow kriegies endured, including the infamous Long Marsh of the winter of 1945. He also tells of his successful escape.
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of...
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Description
In 1942 the Germans built a 'break-out-proof' POW camp to house serial escapee prisoners. Little did they know that they were putting 250 of the most talented escape artists under one roof. The result was a brilliantly masterminded plan to smuggle hundreds of prisoners from under the noses of the German prison guards.
19) The last escaper
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Publisher
Duckworth
Pub. Date
2014
Description
'The Last Escaper' is a charming and informative last testament written by Peter Tunstall, 'the last man standing' from the Colditz generation who risked their lives in the Second World War.
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Mary Lindell, the Comtesse de Milleville was British-born but a largely forgotten agent. She combined a passion for adventure with blunt speech and persistently displayed the greatest personal bravery. The Germans denied that American or British prisoners were imprisoned in Ravensbruck but Lindell smuggled out a secretly compiled list that detailed women who were agents of British Military Intelligence, Special Operations Executive or the French Resistance....