The Real Great Escaper
- ISBN-10
- 1445634422
- ISBN-13
- 9781445634425
- Category
- Prisoner-of-war escapes
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Bob van der Stok
Description
On the night of March 24, 1944, 80 Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German POW compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known as 'The Great Escape, ' an intricate breakout more than a year in the making, involving as many as 2,000 POWs working with extraordinary co-ordination, intelligence, and daring. Yet within a few days, all but three of the escapees were recaptured. Subsequently, fifty were murdered, cremated, and buried in a remote corner of the prison camp. This memoir charts the amazing escape by Bram van der Stok, an RAF Spitfire pilot and one of the three men who actually succeeded in evading capture and got back to Britain.
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