
A unique retelling of WWII's most dramatic escape, told through first-hand recollections of the soldiers who experienced it.
On the night of March 24, 1944, 80 Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 336-foot-long tunnel and slipped into the forest beyond the wire of Stalag...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Joint Winner of the 2014 Libris Award, Non-Fiction Book of the Year
"As always, Ted Barris, our best writer on Canadians at war, paints small, personal stories on the broad canvas of epic conflict, and in The Great Escape, gives...