The publishers have an impressive number Great Escape books available for the 75th anniversary, but this is a particularly welcome addition to the list. The efforts of British POWs to escape from captivity in general, and the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in particular, have dominated the history but this memoir is the important memoir of a Norwegian escaper. – Most Highly Recommended
NAME: The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III, The Memoir of Jens Muller FILE: R2796 AUTHOR: Jens Muller PUBLISHER: Pen and Sword, Greenhill Books, US Naval Institute Press BINDING: hard back PAGES: 145 PRICE: £19.99 GENRE: Non Fiction SUBJECT: WWII, World War 2, World War II, Second World War, POW camps, POWs, downed airmen, escapes, The Great Escape
ISBN: 1-78438-430-5
IMAGE: B2796.jpg BUYNOW: http://tinyurl.com/y6cqjvdm LINKS: DESCRIPTION: The publishers have an impressive number Great Escape books available for the 75th anniversary, but this is a particularly welcome addition to the list. The efforts of British POWs to escape from captivity in general, and the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in particular, have dominated the history but this memoir is the important memoir of a Norwegian escaper. - Most Highly Recommended The history of WWII has generated a mountain of books over the last 75 years and yet there are many stories still to be told. As time runs out, the number of untold stories could also run out unless family members bring forth the unpublished stories of relatives no longer with us. In some cases there are books that were written shortly after WWII as autobiographies, published, but quickly forgotten. As a result, the Great Escape is most famous from a very small number of autobiographies and biographies of leading British POW planners of the Great Escape, by the war crime trials of those Germans involved in the murder of recaptured Great Escapers, and by the Hollywood attempt to claim the Great Escape as a US triumph when no American POW was amongst those who escaped. For all those involved in planning, preparing and digging the tunnels and those who made it before the German guards realized what was happening, and the recaptured POWs who were murdered, only three men were successful and one of those was Jens Muller. That his story has not long been a popular history is a travesty beyond explanation. This book should be very widely read. It is the story of a very modest but extraordinary man and it highlights the largely under-told story of how POWs of all allied nations were determined work together to get back into the fight. It is a very readable and very human story told vividly. There are maps and drawings together with a photo-plate section. A must read book that should also be a source of great Norwegian pride.