MacIntyre, Ben
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle
- ISBN 13:
- 9780241408520
- author:
- MacIntyre, Ben
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Viking
- language:
- English
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions:
- 24 x 15.6 x 2.8 centimetres (0.5
- Genre:
- History, Europe, Germany,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
Colditz Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre is a gripping narrative that delves into one of the most famous prison stories in history. During World War II, the German army used the Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners, who tested its walls and guards with ingenious escape attempts.
The story of Colditz is more than just escape attempts, however. It's a tale of a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. Macintyre's book brings together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his true-life spy stories.
Through the lens of Colditz's most famous and lesser-known prisoners, Macintyre sheds light on the war's arc from within the castle'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.
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