The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape
'Sunrise was in just under six hours. But for
a few minutes the three officers lay on the
sweet, damp grass on a nondescript hill
somewhere in Germany looking up at a huge
moon. It was their first night of freedom in
over two years.
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Oflag VI-8, Warburg, Germany: On the
night of 30 August 1942-'Zero Night'
- 40 officers from Britain, Australia,
New Zealand and South Africa staged
the most audacious mass escape of
World War Two.
It was the first 'Great Escape
instead of tunnelling, the escapers
boldly went over the huge perimeter
fences using wooden scaling
contraptions. This was the notorious
Warburg Wire Job, described by
fellow prisoner and fighter ace
Douglas Bader as 'the most brilliant
escape conception of this war'.
- but
Months of meticulous planning and
secret training hung in the balance
during three minutes of mayhem as
prisoners charged the camp's double
perimeter fences.
Telling this remarkable story in full for
the first time, historian Mark Felton
brilliantly evokes the suspense of the
escape itself and the adventures of
those who eluded 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 is a rip-roaring
adventure story, all the more thrilling
for being true. 9781848317192