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The Grand Escape : the Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century (Scholastic Focus)

Author: Bascomb, Neal

Follett Number: 1898RC5
Audience: Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic Focus, 2020
Format: 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-33871-366-4
ISBN-10: 1-33871-366-3
Dewey: 940.4
Classifications: Nonfiction

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Subjects:
Prisoner-Of-War Escapes Germany Holzminden
Prisoners of War Germany Holzminden
Prisoners of War Great Britain
World War, 1914-1918 Prisoners and Prisons, German
Includes bibliographical references and index. "The story of a group of Allied POWs in WWI who dared to escape from Germany's most notorious prison camp, Holzminden"--Provided by publisher.

From the publisher:
Neal Bascomb, author of The Nazi Hunters, returns with a thrilling work of narrative nonfiction about a group of Allied POWs who staged an escape for the ages during World War I. ***Three starred reviews!*** Illustrated throughout with incredible photographs and published on the 100th anniversary of the Holzminden escape! At the height of World War I, as battles raged in the trenches and in the air, another struggle for survival was being waged in the most notorious POW camp in all of Germany: Holzminden. A landlocked Alcatraz of sorts, it was home to the most troublesome Allied prisoners -- and the most talented at escape. The Grand Escape tells the remarkable tale of a band of pilots who pulled off an ingenious plan and made it out of enemy territory in the biggest breakout of WWI, inspiring their countrymen in the darkest hours of the war.

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