Great Escape FROM THE PUBLISHER
"They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from the German "ferrets" who prowled their compounds with nerve-racking tenacity and suspicion." It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men - every single one of them, every minute, every hour, every day, and every night for more than a year.
SYNOPSIS
Riveting, brilliantly paced, this is the true story of a mass breakout from a German POW camp by a group of American internees; a documentary of intricate planning, escape and survival. Basis of the famous 1963 film with Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn, directed by John Sturges.
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