Human Game: The True Story of the 'great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen
- ISBN-10
- 0425253708
- ISBN-13
- 9780425253700
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Simon Read
Description
Recounts the true events depicted in the movie The Great Escape, during which 76 Allied airmen broke free of the infamous Stalag Luft III POW camp and how a manhunt 20 years later brought to justice many Gestapo killers who worked there. 35,000 first printing.
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