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Author : P. R. Reid
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760346518
The Nazis thought escape was impossible. Colditz is the true story of the Allied prisoners held there and their (sometimes successful) efforts to escape, written by one of the POWs.
Author : Patrick Robert Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Colditz, Ger., Castle
ISBN : UOM:39015002201419
The true story of Colditz, a prison to which Allied officers were sent after trying to excape from Germany, and of the many attempts by the P.O.W.'s to escape. Written in an historically accurate, yet often hilarious style.
Author : Mark Felton
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250095862
Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini’s personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by almost two hundred Italian soldiers and a vicious fascist commando who answers directly to “Il Duce” Mussolini himself. Their unbelievable escape, told by Mark Felton in Castle of the Eagles, is a little-known marvel of World War II. By March 1943, the plan is ready: this extraordinary assemblage of middle-aged POWs has crafted civilian clothes, forged identity papers, gathered rations, and even constructed dummies to place in their beds, all in preparation for the moment they step into the tunnel they have been digging for six months. How they got to this point and what happens after is a story that reads like fiction, supported by an eccentric cast of characters, but is nonetheless true to its core.
Author : Jack Champ,Colin Burgess
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760852153
Colditz Castle was Nazi Germany’s infamous ‘escape-proof’ wartime prison, where hundreds of the most determined and resourceful Allied prisoners were sent. Despite having more guards than inmates, Australian Lieutenant Jack Champ and other prisoners tirelessly carried out their campaign to escape from the massive floodlit stronghold, by any means necessary. In this riveting account – by turns humorous, heartfelt and tragic – historian Colin Burgess and Lieutenant Jack Champ, from the point of view of the prisoners themselves, tell the story of the twenty Australians who made this castle their ‘home’, and the plans they made that were so crazy that some even achieved the seemingly impossible – escape! ‘A stirring testimony of mateship . . . We are often on tenterhooks, always impressed by their determination, industry and courage’ Australian Book Review
Author : Anthony Hoskins
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473848559
Colditz Castle was one of the most famous Prisoner of War camps of the Second World War. It was there that the Germans interred their most troublesome or important prisoners. Hundreds of ingenious escape attempts were made but the most ambitious of all was to build a glider and fly to freedom.Though the glider was built, the war ended before it could be used, and it was subsequently destroyed. Using the original plans and materials used by the prisoners, in March 2012 a replica of the glider was constructed in a bid to see if the escape attempt would have succeeded. The glider was then launched from the roof of the castle roof.Anthony Hoskins is the man who built, and helped launch, the glider. As well as examining the story behind the building of the original glider, he details the construction of the replica and the nail-biting excitement as the Colditz Cock finally took to the skies. Packed with photos of the glider and its flight over Colditz, this is the inside story of the recreation of one of the most intriguing episodes of the Second World War.
Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Signal
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771001987
NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, a definitive and surprising new narrative of one of history's most famous prisons--and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried to relentlessly escape their Nazi captors. The myth of Colditz, the most infamous prison in history, has stood unchallenged for 70 years: prisoners of war, mustaches firmly set on stiff upper lips, defying the Nazis by tunnelling out of a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop. Like all legends, that story contains only part of the truth. In Ben Macintyre's brilliant, cliche-smashing new history, he offers a vision of Colditz previously unimagined, a story of much more than an escape, just as the prison's inmates were far more complicated than the cardboard saints depicted in post-war pop culture. Colditz was a miniature replica of office-class society at the time, only far stranger: a lethal, high stakes boarding school surrounded by barbed wire, initially containing prisoners of all Allied nations, including Canada, but eventually only Britons and Americans, a heavily guarded cage with its own culture, eccentricities, and internal tensions. In intimate and compelling detail, Macintyre explores what happens to people when they are locked up without committing a crime and with no idea when or if they might be liberated. Colditz, then, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of snobbery, class conflict, hidden sexuality, bullying, espionage, boredom, insanity, and farce. With access to declassified archives, private papers, and never-before-seen photos, the author reveals a remarkable cast of characters, previously hidden from history: Indian doctor Birendranath Mazymdar, the only non-white prisoner, whose ill-treatment, hunger-strike and eventual escape reads like fiction; Florimond Duke, America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; Christoper Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture escape aids for POWs, from maps hidden in playing cards to a compass secreted inside a walnut; and many others. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed stunning new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told.
Author : Henry Chancellor
Publisher : Coronet
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : Escapes
ISBN : 034079495X
Colditz high security camp contained every persistent escaper, trouble maker and valuable hostage captured by the Germans in World War II. It was considered escape proof but the very opposite proved to be true. The prisoners pooled their collected talents to create the greatest escape academy of the war.
Author : Reinhold Eggers
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1844155366
"Reinhold Eggers one of the German staff who was Security Officer during the last years at Colditz. It is a compilation of the most spectacular escape attempts written by the escapers themselves. Eggers supports the stories with extracts from his Colditz diary which ran to 26 copybooks, with stories about the German staff and their characters, and a short account of the end of his war when he became a prisoner himself. It has some memorably funny moments (especially the tale of Max and Moritz, who filled in on parades), some very sad moments, and some descriptions of escapes that are truly astonishing"--Publisher's description.
Author : Deborah Chancellor
Publisher : Barrington Stoke
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Prisoner-of-war escapes
ISBN : 1842994549
"Two brave men escape from the notorious prisoner-of-war camp. Now they just have to get through Occupied Europe to freedom. Thrilling, terrifying and true.True stories that are stranger than fiction Forgotten heroes, exciting adventures and fascinating facts guaranteed to appeal to reluctant readers, especially boys Stylish, striking jackets with top quality black white illustrationsReading Age 8 Interest Age 10-14
Author : Mark Felton
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466885257
A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic World War II escape and the real-life adventures that followed. On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as the officers boldly stormed the huge double fences at Oflag Prison. Employing wooden ladders and bridges previously disguised as bookshelves, the highly coordinated effort succeeded and set 36 men free into the German countryside. Later known as the 'Warburg Wire Job', fellow prisoner and fighter ace Douglas Bader once described the attempt as 'the most brilliant escape conception of this war'. The first author to tackle this remarkable story in detail, historian Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape and the adventures of those escapees who managed to elude the Germans, as well as the courage of the civilians who risked their lives to help them in enemy territory. Fantastically intimate and told with a novelist's eye for drama and detail, this rip-roaring adventure is all the more thrilling because it really happened.
Author : Patrick Robert Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:246182204
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472815033
Author : Patrick Robert Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:52042533
A British officer relates his activities in and eventual escape from Colditz Castle, one of the best guarded German prisoner-of-war camps.
Author : Patrick Robert Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Escapes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081632064
A British officer relates his activities in and eventual escape from Colditz Castle, one of the best guarded German prisoner-of-war camps.
Author : Henry Chancellor
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060012862
Chronicles the experiences of the prisoners within the walls of Colditz Prison, a medieval castle that was converted into a high security fortress by the Germans during World War II.
