Over The Hills: The Welsh Great Escape

by Nigel Barley

Everyone has heard of The Great Escape. In March 1944, seventy-six mainly British and Commonwealth airmen tunnelled out of the PoW camp, Stalag Luft III, in Poland and escaped, triggering a vast manhunt throughout occupied Europe. Of the seventy-three subsequently recaptured, forty-one were shot by the SS in cold blood. The incident became an icon of British decency in the face of Nazi barbarity.Yet only a year later, seventy German prisoners of war,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1676646205
• ISBN13: 9781676646204
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"