Publication

2009 - Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, England

Language

English

Word Count

45,250 words, Guess

Page Count

181 pages

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and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC940.547241
  • LCCD805.G7 W46 2010
  • LCCD805

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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  • The great German escape: uprising of Hitler's Nazis in Britain's POW campsPen & Sword Military2009-01-01

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