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Paul Brickhill
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The Great Escape |
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English |
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Paperback |
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304 |
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2004-08-17 |
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0393325792 |
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W. W. Norton & Company |
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0.62 pounds |
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5.43 x 0.79 x 8.11 inches |
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Reissue |
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"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
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