Escape from Germany
Subtitle: the greatest PoW break-out of the First World War
By: Neil Hanson
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780385612043
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Concentration camps; Prisoner-of-war escapes; History; Moral and ethical aspects; German Prisoners and prisons; War
Other titles: Greatest PoW break-out of the First World War
Description: July, 1918. Surrounded by steel palisades and barbed-wire fences, Holzminden was the most heavily guarded POW camp in the world. To escape would take boundless ingenuity and nerves of steel. But on the night of 23 July 1918, twenty-nine undaunted Allied prisoners achieved the impossible. This is the story of how they did it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-306) and index.