num_pages: 304
description: 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 menevery one of them every minute every hour every day and night for more than a year. Made into the classic 1963 war film of the same name starring Steve McQueen James Garner and Richard Attenborough. 16 pages of photographs
language: English
title: The Great Escape
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company