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Excellent!
Another Ben Macintyre classic! Very insightful but never dull. A brilliant read for anyone who is interested in WW2 history. Colditz offers a brilliant set... READ MORE
Insightful and Fascinating!
This is an absolutely brilliant book! As a History graduate and one as an academic background - I can really say that I really do not mind a book without a... READ MORE
Colditz in colour
This may well be the definitive popular history of the infamous prison camp, its guards and inmates. In depth yet gripping, the book adds much needed nuanc... READ MORE
Publisher information
- Publisher: F. A. Thorpe (Publishers)
- ISBN: 9781444850703
- Number of pages: 438
- Dimensions: 232 x 155 mm
- Languages: English
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Great Book
Not so much an escape book, more about endurance, and the cold reality of being a POW, sheds a new light on how people behaved, recommended
An illuminating insight of events and life in Colditz
Having read Pat Reid's book many years ago and grown up with the knowing those friends of my parents who had been sent to Colditz, I started to read this w... READ MORE
Colditz
An enlightening and for once open missive about the real world not the fantasy tales we have been programmed with before. There is in fact nothing new in t... READ MORE
Book
Bought for my mum she really enjoy this book if u like book about what happen in colditz about men trying to escape frown prison
Superb history, escapology, psychology and just an overall fascinating book.
I loved this book.
This book is for me, the best that Macintyre has produced. The history of Colditz is thorough, always readable and detailed but never ... READ MORE
Excellent
I thought this was an excellent read. I thought I knew quite a lot about Colditz but having read this book I realise I didn't. I didn't know what a class ... READ MORE
So good, I read it twice
Read it twice. Bought this ne as a gift