Zero Night: The Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape by Mark Felton (Paperback, 2015)

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Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first 'Great Escape' - but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. This was the notorious 'Warburg Wire Job', described by fellow prisoner and fighter ace Douglas Bader as 'the most brilliant escape conception of this war'. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as prisoners charged the camp's double perimeter fences. Telling this remarkable story in full for the first time, historian Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape itself and the adventures of those who eluded the Germans, as well as the courage of the civilians who risked their lives to help them in enemy territory. Fantastically intimate and told with a novelist's eye for drama and detail, this is a rip-roaring adventure story, all the more thrilling for being true.

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ISBN-139781848318472
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Book TitleZero Night: the Untold Story of the Second World War's Most Daring Great Escape
AuthorMark Felton
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGovernment, History
Publication Year2015
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages320 Pages

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Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight268g

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Title_AuthorMark Felton
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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