The Great Escape

The Great Escape
ISBN-10
0393325792
ISBN-13
9780393325799
Series
The Great Escape
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
1950
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Paul Brickhill

Description

Records the efforts of six hundred British and American officers to escape from a Nazi prison camp.

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