![]() ![]() Thanks to research across seven countries, The Greatest Escape is no longer a secret. And yet, of the 106 men who escaped, 100 made it to safety. We follow the escapees on a nail-biting 160-mile journey across the Alps, pursued by German soldiers, ambushed and betrayed. A group of Allied POWs engineer a bold escape from a Nazi camp in World War II. The book uncovers the hidden story of Allied intelligence operations in Slovenia, and shows how Ralph became involved. Steve McQueen and James Garner are the leaders of a. The Greatest Escape, written by Ralph Churches' son Neil, takes us from Ralph and Les's capture in Greece in 1941 and their brutal journey to Maribor, with many POWs dying along the way, to the horror of seeing Russian prisoners starved to death in the camp. An escape-proof Nazi prison camp is no match for resourceful POWs in this classic 1963 World War II drama. The purpose-built camp was opened in April 1942 and the Germans considered it to be practically escape-proof. How these three men came together - along with the partisans - to plan and execute the escape is told here for the first time. The Great Escape, as it came to be known, was a mass escape attempt from the prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III located near the Polish town of Zagan. The American was on a mission to work with the partisans who moved like ghosts through the Alps, ambushing and evading Nazi forces. The escape was organized not by officers, but by two ordinary soldiers: Australian Ralph Churches (a bank clerk before the war) and Londoner Les Laws (a jazz pianist by profession), with the help of intelligence officer Franklin Lindsay. In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place - 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in present-day Slovenia. The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy. The mass escape of 76 Allied airmen from a Nazi POW camp in March 1944 remains one of history’s most famous prison breaks. ![]()
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