Records the efforts of six hundred British and American officers to escape from a Nazi prison camp.
This is a must-read for anybody interested in the wealth and health of nations."--Daron Acemoglu, coauthor of Why Nations Fail "At once engaging and compassionate, this is an uplifting story by a major scholar.
4 “None are captured at the rear”: Ferguson, p. 22. 5 “Within two minutes I saw”: White, p. 1. 5 “I was now between two lines”: Byers, p. 4. 6 “I addressed him thus”: McCabe, p. 125.
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