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The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Europe 1944-45
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The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Europe 1944-45 Hardback - 2003

by John Nichol; Tony Rennell; Chris Scott (Joint Author)

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By June 1944 there were hundreds of thousands of American and British prisoners of war in camps across Nazi-controlled Europe. News of the D-Day landings, heard on secret camp radios, filled the prisoners with both hope and dread. Amid this confusion and fear, the POWs were herded from their camps and forced at gunpoint to walk many hundreds of miles deeper into Germany on what the POWs themselves called the Death March.In The Last Escape, Gulf War POW and author John Nichol and popular historian Tony Rennell relate the astonishing story of these unrecognized heroes. Drawing upon interviews with many surviving veterans who speak here for the first time, this is an unparalleled account of endurance and courage in wartime.

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As WW2 drew to a close, hundreds of thousands of British and American prisoners of war, held in camps in Nazi-occupied Europe, faced the prospect that they would never get home alive. In the depths of winter, their guards harried them on marches outof their camps and away from the armies advancing into the heart of Hitler's defeated Germany. Hundreds died from exhaustion, disease and starvation. THE LAST ESCAPE is told through the testimony of those heroic men, now in their seventies and eighties and telling their stories publicly for the first time.

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By June 1944 there were hundreds of thousands of American and British prisoners of war in camps across Nazi-controlled Europe. News of the D-Day landings, heard on secret camp radios, filled the prisoners with both hope and dread. Amid this confusion and fear, the POWs were herded from their camps and forced at gunpoint to walk many hundreds of miles deeper into Germany on what the POWs themselves called the Death March.
In "The Last Escape," Gulf War POW and author John Nichol and popular historian Tony Rennell relate the astonishing story of these unrecognized heroes. Drawing upon interviews with many surviving veterans who speak here for the first time, this is an unparalleled account of endurance and courage in wartime.

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  • Title The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Europe 1944-45
  • Author John Nichol; Tony Rennell; Chris Scott (Joint Author)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 520
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking Books, New York
  • Publication date 2003-05-26
  • ISBN 9780670032129 / 0670032123
  • Weight 1.96 lbs (0.89 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.46 x 6.28 x 1.66 in (24.03 x 15.95 x 4.22 cm)
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002041191
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.547

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