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One night in 1944, 80 airmen escaped a German POW compound in Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape." Ted Barris writes of the planners, task leaders, and key players in the escape attempt, those who got away, those who didn't, and their families at home.
One night in 1944, 80 airmen escaped a German POW compound in Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape." Ted Barris writes of the planners, task leaders, and key players in the escape attempt, those who got away, those who didn't, and their families at home.
One night in 1944, 80 airmen escaped a German POW compound in Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape." Ted Barris writes of the planners, task leaders, and key players in the escape attempt, those who got away, those who didn't, and their families at home.
One night in 1944, 80 airmen escaped a German POW compound in Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape." Ted Barris writes of the planners, task leaders, and key players in the escape attempt, those who got away, those who didn't, and their families at home.
One night in 1944, 80 airmen escaped a German POW compound in Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape." Ted Barris writes of the planners, task leaders, and key players in the escape attempt, those who got away, those who didn't, and their families at home.
An account of the escape by Commonwealth prisoners of war from Stalag Luft III, a German prison camp in Poland, during the Second World War through the voices of those that trained and served in Canada.
Winner, W.O. Mitchell Award, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction, and Alberta Reader's Choice Award. Following his mother's death in 2004, Tyler Trafford discovers an album of old letters and creased photographs that reveal a mother he never knew, a man he's never heard of, …
Novelist Tyler Trafford reconstructs the story of his mother's life--from her youth as a Montreal debutante to her final days as a casualty of an unhappy marriage--as he uncovers the mystery of her relationship with Jens Müller, one of only three prisoners to make it home after …
Eric Williams was an RAF pilot in World War II. He was shot down over Germany and managed to evade capture for three days before being found and sent to a prison in Poland. After a successful escape,he was recaptured and transferred to Stalag Luft III, from which he also escaped…
An epic adventure?the most brilliant escape and evasion from the Nazis ever written. Eric Williams, a Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, the infamous German POW camp. Digging an underground tunnel hidden beneath …
Three prisoners of war in World War II who used a wooden vaulting horse they had constructed as a means of diverting the attention of their guards from the escape tunnel they were building.