From The Great Escape to The Colditz Story, readers have become familiar with the many stories of British wartime escapes. But what of German prisoners in British hands? Did they try as persistently as their British counterparts to escape? Did they bait their guards with similar ironic humour and with horseplay often carried to dangerous extremes? Were similar epics of courage and endurance enacted unknown to us on our own soil and on the surrounding seas? How were our prisoners fed, interrogated, guarded? In other words, how did we treat them? These questions are all answered in the first book to tell the full story of Franz von Werra, a Luftwaffe officer escaping in England, set against the background of our own familiar countryside, and with our own countrymen'police, soldiers, home guards, shepherds, bus conductors and booking clerks playing the unfamiliar roles of pursuer and sometimes unconscious abettor of one of the most ingenious and brazen of all escapers. Based on von Werra's own account, this exciting story provides a fascinating insight to the war from the German point of view.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
ISBN-13
9781844154371
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95527569
Product Key Features
Author
James Leasor, Kendal Burt
Publication Name
The One That Got Away
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
James Leasor, Kendal Burt
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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