An edition of Colditz: The Full Story (1984)

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An edition of Colditz: The Full Story (1984)

Colditz

the full story

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The Germans thought escape was impossible. These men proved them wrong.

Colditz Castle, located near Leipzig Germany, was the last stop for select Allied prisoners during World War II. It was here, a reportedly impregnable fortress, that the Germans sent all the prisoners who escaped from other prisons. Once within the walls, the Germans reasoned, escaping was impossible. Yet during the four-year period when the castle was used as a prison, over three hundred men escaped, thirty-one through Nazi Germany.

Prisoners from ten different Allied countries worked together to form a truly international escape academy. They created skeleton keys, forged German passes, drafted maps, and constructed all types of tools and machinery out of whatever they could find. The ingenuity of the prisoners knew no bounds: they tried everything from tunneling underneath the castle's walls to hiding in the garbage to disguising themselves as German officers. They even built a glider, which they never used. Resourcefulness and hard work won a few of them their freedom.

Author and former British Army officer, P.R. Reid, was one of the men who escaped from Colditz and made it home to tell the story. This paperback edition, introduced into the Zenith Military Classic series, introduces this thrilling WWII story to a new generation of readers. Four appendices at the end of book provide a full listing of prisoners and staff, all of the attempted escapes, the secret code used to communicate between prisoners and the outside world, and more.

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English
Pages
344

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Colditz: The Full Story
2021, Pan Macmillan
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Colditz: the full story
2015, Zenith Press, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc.
in English
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Colditz
May 14, 2009, Pan
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Colditz: The Full Story
June 2002, Pan Books
Paperback in English - Ill edition
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Colditz: The Full Story
May 1987, St. Martin's Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Colditz
Colditz: The Full Story
May 1987, St Martins Pr
Hardcover in English - 1st U.S. ed edition
Cover of: Colditz
Colditz: the full story
1985, Arrow
in English
Cover of: Colditz
Colditz: the full story
1985, Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Colditz
Colditz: the full story
1984, St. Martin's Press
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: Colditz
Colditz: the full story
1984, Macmillan
in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published: Colditz : the full story / P.R. Reid. London : Macmillan London Ltd., 1984.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-335) and index.

Published in
Minneapolis, MN

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/72430943212
Library of Congress
D805.G3 R355 2015, D805.G3R355 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
vll , 344 pages
Number of pages
344

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31038113M
Internet Archive
colditzfullstory0000reid_c1h4
ISBN 13
9780760346518
LCCN
2014032078

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