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The Grand Escape : The Greatest Prison Breakout Of The 20th Century

by Neal Bascomb

Synopsis

Neal Bascomb, author of The Nazi Hunters, returns with his next thrilling work of narrative nonfiction about a group of Allied POWs who staged an escape for the ages during World War I. Neal Bascomb, author of The Nazi Hunters, returns with his next thrilling work of narrative nonfiction about a group of Allied POWs who staged an escape for the ages during World War I. Illustrated throughout with incredible photographs and published on the 100th anniversary of the Holzminden escape!At the height of World War I, as battles raged in the trenches and in the air, another struggle for survival was being waged in the most notorious POW camp in all of Germany: Holzminden. A land-locked Alcatraz of sorts, it was home to the most troublesome Allied prisoners--and the most talented at escape. The Grand Escape tells the remarkable tale of a band of pilots who pulled off an ingenious plan and made it out of enemy territory in the biggest breakout of WWI, inspiring their countrymen in the darkest hours of the war.

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Copyright year 2018
ISBN-13 9781338140347
ISBN-10 1338140345
Class Copyright
Publisher Scholastic, Incorporated
Subject Juvenile Nonfiction
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 288
Language ENG
Shelf No. NB644
Grade Range 7-
Ages 12-
Lexile 1070L