The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III
Subtitle: The Full Story of How 76 Allied Officers Carried Out World War II's Most Remarkable Mass Escape
Publisher: Pocket
Published: August 2, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781416505310
Subjects: Stalag Luft III; çZagaân; Prisoners Of War; World War II - Europe; History; History - Military / War; World War, 1939-1945; Military; Prisoners and prisons, German; Military - World War II; History / Military / General; Poland; Prisoner-of-war escapes
First sentence: The first Allied officer to fall into German hands was a New Zealand RAF airman who was shot down over the North Sea on 5 September 1939-shortly after war was declared.