Dimensions
131 x 198 x 20mm
The Full Dramatic Story with Contributions from Survivors and Their Families.
On the night of 24 March 1944, 76 Allied RAF officers escaped from Stalag-Luft III, Nazi Germany's most secure POW camp. It was the biggest break-out of the Second World War. The tenacity and ingenuity of the prisoners has become the stuff of legend, as they saw through their plan to dig the longest and most sophisticated tunnel ever conceived.
But the men paid a high price for their bravery: of the 73 men recaptured, 50 were brutally executed on Hitler's direct orders. The tireless RAF investigation into the atrocity affords us an extraordinary insight into the last hours of many of the victims and the actions of the killers.
Drawing together the meticulous research carried out for the war-crimes trial, interviews with the families and friends of the murdered men and with surviving veterans of the camp, Anton Gill provides us with a definitive account of this unique event and its shocking aftermath.
