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The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's Cousin and the Great Escape

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The Dodger

The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's Cousin and the Great Escape

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"The ... story of Johnny Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the ... Hollywood film The Great Escape. ... American-born Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the 'Great Escape.' Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of the Saschenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away to Berlin with Hitler's interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche Nazi apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnny's adventurous life. ..."--Book jacket.

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Dodger: The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's Cousin, Two World Wars, and the Great Escape
2013, Globe Pequot Press, The
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Dodger: The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's Cousin and the Great Escape
2013, Penguin Random House
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Dodger
2013, Globe Pequot Press, The
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The Dodger
2013-03-04, Paragon
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2012-10-01, Windsor

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Published in
Edinburgh

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.547243092
Library of Congress
D805.5.S745 C36 2012, D805.G3

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 volume

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28289928M
Internet Archive
dodgerextraordin0000carr_a2n8
ISBN 10
1845967992, 1780572867
ISBN 13
9781845967994, 9781780572864
LCCN
2012452873
OCLC/WorldCat
772973181

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