The Great Escape: A Canadian Story

The Great Escape: A Canadian Story
ISBN-10
1771024747
ISBN-13
9781771024747
Series
The Great Escape
Category
History
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2013-09-16
Publisher
Dundurn.com
Author
Ted Barris

Description

One night in 1944, eighty airmen escaped a German POW compound in Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape." Ted Barris writes of the planners, task leaders, and key players in the escape attempt, those who got away, those who didn't, and their families at home.

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