Colditz : prisoners of the castle /
by Macintyre, Ben.
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BookPublisher: UK : Viking, 2022Description: xxii, 353 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780241408520 (hbk.) :; 0241408520 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 940.5472 MACSubject(s): Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and Defence | History | European historySummary: In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth. The astonishing inside story is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of snobbery, class conflict, homosexuality, bullying, espionage, boredom, insanity and farce. With access to an astonishing range of material, Ben Macintyre reveals a remarkable cast of characters of multiple nationalities hitherto hidden from history, with captors and prisoners living for years cheek-by-jowl in a thrilling game of cat and mouse.
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| 940.5472 KER Shot down / | 940.5472 LAN Those who trespass against us: | 940.5472 LOM The railway man | 940.5472 MAC Colditz : prisoners of the castle / | 940.5472 MAW Doctor after Arnhem: witness to the fall of the Third Reich | 940.5472 TYR Stolen childhoods: | 940.5472 WAI Survivor of the long march: five years as a PoW, 1940-1945 |
Illustrations on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth. The astonishing inside story is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of snobbery, class conflict, homosexuality, bullying, espionage, boredom, insanity and farce. With access to an astonishing range of material, Ben Macintyre reveals a remarkable cast of characters of multiple nationalities hitherto hidden from history, with captors and prisoners living for years cheek-by-jowl in a thrilling game of cat and mouse.
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