The Big Break : The Greatest American WWII POW Escape Story Never Told
by Dando-Collins, Stephen
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About This Item
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket xvii + 252pp., b/w plates, maps, notes, bibliog., index, Story opens in the stinking latrines of the Schubin camp as an American and a Canadian lead the digging of a tunnel which enabled a break involving 36 prisoners of war (POWs). The Germans then converted the camp to Oflag 64, to exclusively hold US Army officers, with more than 1500 Americans ultimately housed there. Plucky Americans attempted a variety of escapes until January, 1945, only to be thwarted every time.
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- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
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- Title
- The Big Break : The Greatest American WWII POW Escape Story Never Told
- Author
- Dando-Collins, Stephen
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- octavo
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