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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Military
Retail Price: $16.95
Pages: 264
'A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale.'—Philadelphia Inquirer
They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men—every one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year. Made into the classic movie starring Steve McQueen. 16 pages of photographs.