The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944
- ISBN-10
- 1784384380
- ISBN-13
- 9781784384388
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 392
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-03-04
- Author
- Jonathan F. Vance
Description
The prison break from Stalag Luft III in eastern Germany was the largest of its kind in World War II. Seventy nine Allied soldiers and airmen made it outside the wire - but only three made it outside Nazi Germany. Fifty were executed by the Gestapo.
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