Prisoners of the castle: an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison
"In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyre's telling, Colditz's most famous names--like the indomitable Pat Reid--share glory with lesser known but equally remarkable characters like Indian doctor Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture covert escape aids for POWs. Prisoners of the Castle traces the war's arc from within Colditz's stone walls, where the stakes rose as Hitler's war machine faltered and the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told" |
| Beschreibung: | xvii, 342 Seiten, 32 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten |
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| adam_text | Contents IX PREFACE xiii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xviii MAPS Prologue: Franz Josef 3 1940 1. The Originals 9 1941 2. 3. 4. 5. Le Ray’s Run The Bad Boys’ Camp Goon-Baiting Ballet Nonsense 23 39 58 73 1942 6. 7. 8. 9. Le Métro Clutty of MI9 Seeking for a Path Dogsbody 85 100 115 132 1943 10. The Prominente Club 11. Shabash 153 170
xii CONTENTS 1944 12. The Dentist Spies 189 13. Madness 205 14. The Sparrows 217 15. The Red Fox 231 1945 16. The Rhine Maiden 249 17. Besieged 265 18. Endgame 281 Aftermath 297 APPENDIX: THE 5-6-0 CODE 315 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 323 A NOTE ON SOURCES 325 INDEX 329
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Contents IX PREFACE xiii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xviii MAPS Prologue: Franz Josef 3 1940 1. The Originals 9 1941 2. 3. 4. 5. Le Ray’s Run The Bad Boys’ Camp Goon-Baiting Ballet Nonsense 23 39 58 73 1942 6. 7. 8. 9. Le Métro Clutty of MI9 Seeking for a Path Dogsbody 85 100 115 132 1943 10. The Prominente Club 11. Shabash 153 170
xii CONTENTS 1944 12. The Dentist Spies 189 13. Madness 205 14. The Sparrows 217 15. The Red Fox 231 1945 16. The Rhine Maiden 249 17. Besieged 265 18. Endgame 281 Aftermath 297 APPENDIX: THE 5-6-0 CODE 315 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 323 A NOTE ON SOURCES 325 INDEX 329 |
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