Prisoners of the castle: an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison
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"In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyre's telling, Colditz's most famous names-like the indomitable Pat Reid-share glory with lesser known but equally remarkable characterslike Indian doctor Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture covert escape aids for POWs. Prisoners of the Castle traces the war's arc from within Colditz's stone walls, where the stakes rose as Hitler's war machine faltered and the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told"--
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History
Large type books
Oflag IV C (Concentration camp)
Prisoner-of-war escapes
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Germany -- Colditz -- History
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Germany -- Colditz -- History -- 20th century
Prisoners and prisons, German
Prisoners of war
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Colditz
Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany) -- History
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Colditz
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
Large type books
Oflag IV C (Concentration camp)
Prisoner-of-war escapes
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Germany -- Colditz -- History
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Germany -- Colditz -- History -- 20th century
Prisoners and prisons, German
Prisoners of war
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Colditz
Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany) -- History
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Colditz
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
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9780593632079
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9780593136331
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"In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyre's telling, Colditz's most famous names-like the indomitable Pat Reid-share glory with lesser known but equally remarkable characterslike Indian doctor Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture covert escape aids for POWs. Prisoners of the Castle traces the war's arc from within Colditz's stone walls, where the stakes rose as Hitler's war machine faltered and the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told"--
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Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Colditz
Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany) -- History
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
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Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Germany -- Colditz -- History
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Germany -- Colditz -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Colditz
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
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Prisoners of the castle : an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison
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Prisoners of the Castle : an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison / Ben Macintyre
Prisoners of the castle : an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison / Ben Macintyre
Prisoners of the castle : an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison / Ben Macintyre
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Prisoners of the castle
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Large type books
Prisoner-of-war escapes
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Prisoners of war
World War, 1939-1945
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Prisoner-of-war escapes
Prisoners and prisons, German
Prisoners of war
World War, 1939-1945
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