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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 342 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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 a legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape....
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First Harper Perennial editiion.
Physical Desc
xv, 476 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
France, 1940. The once-glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wehrmacht. It was on this circumstance that three enterprising Americans concentrated their efforts in the first two years of the war. Ivy League scholar Varian Fry, sent by the American Emergency Rescue Committee, heiress Mary Jayne Gold and graduate student Miriam Davenport turned a Marseille chateau into a...
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