Title: The Dodger
Subtitle: The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's Cousin and the Great Escape
Description: "The ... story of Johnny Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the ... Hollywood film The Great Escape. ... American-born Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the 'Great Escape.' Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of the Saschenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away to Berlin with Hitler's interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche Nazi apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnny's adventurous life. ..."--Book jacket.
Subjects: Prisoners of war, Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp), German Prisoners and prisons, Prisoner-of-war escapes, World War, 1939-1945, Stalag Luft III, Biography, Warfare and Defence, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, german, Prisoners, great britain, HISTORY / Military / World War II, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Concentration camps, Great britain, biography, Germany, biography, Escapes
Places: Great Britain, Germany
People: John Bigelow Dodge