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The Great Escape

By: Paul Brickhill
Narrated by: Roger Davis
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The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German POW camp that inspired the classic film.

One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The Great Escape tells how more than 600 men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year, they dug tunnels, and those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had escaped. All of this was conducted under the very noses of their prison guards. When the right night came, the actual escape itself was timed to the split second - but, of course, not everything went according to plan....

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Spoilt by the narrator’s somewhat irreverent style, this genuinely exciting story is well worth reading. In a book. Paul Brickhill’s writing style is accessible to all ages - I read this decades ago and was enthralled - but even though I was young way back then, my inner narration scores over that of Roger Davis.

Not that Roger Davis is a bad narrator - I think perhaps a touch more gravitas would have been applicable here.

Classic real-life adventure, but …

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