The Nazis thought escape was impossible. Colditz is the true story of the Allied prisoners held there and their (sometimes successful) efforts to escape, written by one of the POWs.
Escape from Colditz
A British officer relates his activities in and eventual escape from Colditz Castle, one of the best guarded German prisoner-of-war camps.
Escape from Colditz
There was a code called HK, developed by Lieutenant-Colonel L. Winterbottom of MI9 in conjunction with a Foreign Office specialist named Hooker, that would allow the generals to communicate with MI9 through their regular mail, ...
The Latter Days
Packed with photos of the glider and its flight over Colditz, this is the inside story of the recreation of one of the most intriguing episodes of the Second World War.
Colditz high security camp contained every persistent escaper, trouble maker and valuable hostage captured by the Germans in World War II. It was considered escape proof but the very opposite proved to be true.
Praise for They Have Their Exits “One of the best escape memoirs to emerge from the Second World War, combining the adventure story of most with a deeper examination of the mental impact of captivity and escape, and the stresses and risks ...
For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape.