Title:
Human game : the true story of the "Great Escape" murders and the hunt for the Gestapo gunmen
Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
New York : Berkley Caliber, 2012.
Physical Description:
xvi, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780425252734
Abstract:
Recounts the events depicted in the movie "The Great Escape, " during which Allied airmen broke free of the Stalag Luft III POW camp and how a manhunt twenty years later brought to justice many Gestapo killers who worked there.
Contents:
Preamble: The great escape -- Prologue: Sunday, March 26 -- 'Those are my orders' -- Cold case -- Vengeance -- Zlín -- The London cage -- Prime suspects -- Munich -- A death in the mountains -- Saarbrücken -- Danzig -- Finding Scharpwinkel -- Alone -- The order of the blood -- Remembrance -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix A: The fifty -- Appendix B: A survivor's tale.
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Language:
English
