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The Wooden Horse: The Classic World War II Story of Escape

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An epic adventure—the most brilliant escape and evasion from the Nazis ever written.Eric Williams, a Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, the infamous German POW camp. Digging an underground tunnel hidden beneath a wooden vaulting horse, he managed to escape after ten months and, accompanied by a fellow officer, made his way back to England. In this thinly fictionalized retelling, Williams relates his story in three distinct phases: the construction of a tunnel (its entrance camouflaged by the wooden vaulting horse in the exercise yard) and hiding the large quantities of sand he dug; the escape; and the journey on foot and by train to the port of Stettin, where Williams and his fellow escapee stowed away aboard a Danish ship, theNorensen.From painstakingly digging the tunnel to secretly depositing the dirt and gravel around the camp to dodging searchlights and search dogs and climbing barbed wire fences, this is an escape story hard to beat. For sheer heroism, courage, and perseverance, this classic is arguably the most ingenious POW escape of WWII.The Wooden Horsebecame a legend among servicemen long before its publication in 1949 and has remained one ever since.
Request Code : ZLIBIO2314723
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Year:
2014
Edition:
Paperback
Publisher:
Skyhorse
Language:
English
Pages:
272
ISBN 10:
1628736690
ISBN 13:
9781628736694
ISBN:
1628736690,9781628736694

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