The books being launched this year on the 75th anniversary of the Great Escape have been of a very high standard, providing a challenge for readers who cannot afford all of them. This new book has been carefully researched and has to be a front runner for all readers but, from those books we have reviewed this year, each has unique insight and an enthusiast will want to buy them all – Highly Recommended
NAME: The True Story of the Great Escape, Stalag Luft III, March 1944 FILE: R2838 AUTHOR: Jonathan F Vance PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword, Greenhill Books BINDING: soft back PAGES: 368 PRICE: £9.99 GENRE: Non Fiction SUBJECT: World War II, World War Two, World War 2, Second World War, POW escapes, German POW camps, The Great Escape, war crimes, downed airmen
ISBN: 978-1-78438-438-8
IMAGE: B2838.jpg BUYNOW: tinyurl.com/y267vmyc LINKS: DESCRIPTION: The books being launched this year on the 75th anniversary of the Great Escape have been of a very high standard, providing a challenge for readers who cannot afford all of them. This new book has been carefully researched and has to be a front runner for all readers but, from those books we have reviewed this year, each has unique insight and an enthusiast will want to buy them all - Highly Recommended Stalag Luft III is immortal because of the Great Escape where 76 POWs made it outside the wire, only three made successful home runs, 50 were murdered by the Gestapo, and the escape caused turmoil inside Germany. However, there were many camps and each of them had enthusiastic would be escapers, so that Stalag Luft III stands for itself and for all of them. The author tells the amazing story as a classic tale of a battle of wits between prisoners and those guarding them. This is a comprehensive account of the building of the tunnels, life within the camp, daring, courage, determination and comradeship. The author has also captured the humour and the spirit of the prisoners and the mixture of sport and serious endeavour. Serious research and balance are keynotes of this book. It is well-written and it does have a modest photo-plate section but, although it is always nice to have more illustration, the excellent Pen and Sword Images of War volume covering Stalag Luft III provides so many rare photographs no reader can feel a lack of illustration in any of the histories of the camp. The economics of publishing always place pressure on the amount of illustration for a thorough history book