The Great Escape - by Paul Brickhill (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Steve McQueen, "The Great Escape" chronicles the largest Allied escape attempt--using their bare hands and crude homemade tools to dig their way out--from a German POW camp during World War II.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance.</p><p>It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men--every one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year.</p><p>Made into the classic 1963 war film of the same name starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Absorbing... spine-tingling... puts the average war book so far in the shadow it's not even funny.-- "Dallas Times Herald"<br><br>For sheer suspense, puts the fictioneers to shame.-- "Boston Globe"<br><br>One of the great true stories of the war, and one of the greatest escape narratives of all time.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"<br>
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