The Escape Artists
a band of daredevil pilots and the greatest prison breakout of wwi
$42.87
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2019
Summary
The Great Holzminden Escape: A World War I Thriller
In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, captured soldiers and pilots narrowly avoided death only to find themselves imprisoned in Germany’s archipelago of brutal POW camps. After several unsuccessful escapes, a group of Allied prisoners of Holzminden - Germany’s land-locked Alcatraz- hatched the most elaborate escape plan yet known. With ingenious engineering, disguises, forgery and courage, their story would e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473686816 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473686814 |
| Author: | Neal Bascomb |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Fascinating
Fascinating - Daily Express
It’s riveting reading, but more than that, it’s inspiring - Candice Millard, author of Hero of the EmpireA remarkable piece of hidden history, told perfectly … brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism - David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower MoonEntertaining … very little is known about the escape artists of World War I, but Bascomb’s suspenseful and well-researched book could change that - Daily MailAbout The Author
Neal Bascomb
Neal Bascomb is the author of nine award-winning, national, and international bestselling adult books, including most recently the New York Times bestseller on the sabotage of the German atomic bomb program The Winter Fortress. He also chronicled the search for a Nazi war criminal in Hunting Eichmann and the story of Roger Bannister’s four-minute-mile in The Perfect Mile. His work has been translated in over eighteen countries.
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