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The Great German Escape

By Charles Whiting

Book information

Publisher
Pen and Sword
Year
2010
ISBN
9781848840324, 9781844684588
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1832073 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2022-10-02 22:50:41
HIS027000HistoryMilitaryNonfiction

Description

Throughout the Second World War there had been a potentially lethal Trojan horse inside Britain; from Comrie in Northern Scotland, down to Devizes in Wiltshire, in every city, in every race course of any note, in every football ground, were German POWs. Nearly a quarter of a million of them in fact; fit, virile young men, and a goodly number of them fanatical National Socialists. Now what would these young men do if they were armed and given a plan which transcended merely escaping? What if these desperate young men, were given the promise of an airborne landing by German forces in Britain: the vital support they needed to capture their main objective – London? This is the gripping story of their abortive mass escape plan and the covert operations that went with it.

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