The Great Escape: A Canadian Story by Barris, Ted - 2013-10-29

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Thomas Allen Publishers, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition, 4th Printing. Not price-clipped ($33.99 price intact). Published by Thomas Allen Publishers, 2013. Octavo. Blue cloth boards stamped in gold with illustrated endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 288 pages. ISBN: 9781771022729. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2013. 288 pp, 9 1/4" H. Map/plan endpapers, b&w photographs, reproductions. "On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 400-foot-long tunnel, code-named 'Harry', and most slipped into the darkness of a pine forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known as the Great Escape. The breakout, more than a year in the making, involved about 2,000 POWs and a battle of wits inconceivable for its time. Within days of the escape, however, all but three escapers were recaptured; subsequently Adolf Hitler ordered fifty of them murdered, cremated, and buried in a remote corner of the same prison compound. What most (people) don't readily acknowledge is that the Great Escape was in many ways, 'made-in-Canada'. (The author) recounts this nearly mythical escape operation through the voices of those involved, many of whom trained in Canada, served in RCAF… Read More

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