The Great Escape

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Review Absorbing...spine-tingling...puts the average war book so far in the shadow it's not even funny. -- _ Dallas Times-Herald_ For sheer suspense, puts the fictioneers to shame. -- _ Boston Globe_ One of the great true stories of the war, and one of the greatest escape narratives of all time. -- _ San Francisco Chronicle_ Product 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 men—every one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year. Made into the classic movie starring Steve McQueen. 16 pages of photographs.