Colditz: The Great Escapes

By Ron Baybutt

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316083941
• ISBN13: 9780316083942
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Funny and fascinating

This book was wonderfully interesting, even for a person with a short attention span. It has the look of a magazine-- large pictures accompanying the text. The author writes about some of the more dramatic escapes from Colditz, the Germans' maximum-security WWII prison camp where all the best POW escape artists were held. The Germans faithfully recorded all escape attempts on film and the result is some great pictures, like the prisoner who dressed in drag to fool the guards (and was very nearly successful) or the prisoner who impersonated the camp electrician and was made to pose beside the real thing (in the picture, they look like twins.) I highly recommend it-- even if you're not interested in WWII escapes (and why not?) this book is fun.