La Gran Evasión es uno de los episodios más célebres de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Transcurridos 60 años del suceso, ha llegado el momento de rendir homenaje al ingenio de los hombres que hicieron posible esta audaz fuga. La Gran Evasion cuenta la historia de los oficiales que lograron atravesar la alambrada de espino y eludir las torres de vigilancia del Stalag Luft III, el modelico y supuestamente impenetrable campo de prisioneros que Goering ordeno construir.

The true story of one of the most heroic feats of World War II...the daring prison camp breakout that inspired the classic film The Great Escape.Stalag Luft III was one of the Germans"escape-proof" prison camps, specially built by Hermann Goring to hold Allied troops. But on March 24, 1944, in a courageous attempt by two hundred prisoners to break out through a series of tunnels, seventy-six Allied officers managed to evade captureand create havoc behind enemy lines in the months before the Normandy Invasion. This is the incredible story of these brave men who broke free from the supposedly impenetrable barbed wire and watchtowers of Stalag Luft IIIand who played an important role in Allied intelligence operations within occupied Europe. The prisoners developed an intricate espionage network, relaying details of military deployment, bombings, and raids. Some of them were involved in other daring escape attempts, including the famous Wooden Horse episode, also turned into a classic film, and the little-known Sachsenhausen breakout, engineered by five Great Escapers sent to die in the notorious concentration camp on Hitlers personal orders. Tragically, fifty of those involved in the Great Escape were murdered by the Gestapo. Others were recaptured; only a few made it all the way to freedom. This dramatic account of personal heroism is a testament to their ingenuity and achievementa stirring tribute to the men who never gave up fighting.Includes eight pages of photographs and illustrations, excerpts from Gorings testimony during postwar investigations, and a list of the men who escaped.

During the last ten days of Hitler's Berlin, 30,000 German teenagers perished defending their beloved Fuhrer in the Allied onslaught. Armin Lehmann was one of the few boy soldiers who escaped the bloodbath. This volume is Armin's eyewitness account of the Nazi apocalypse.

Ésta es la historia de cómo Armin fue tomando conciencia del horror del que formó parte y cómo, en vez de huir de su pasado, finalmente lo enfrentó y encontró la paz.

The Full Story of the Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass Escape. The story of the men who managed to break out from the supposedly impenetrable Stalag Luft III, Goring's showcase prison camp near Sagan. An extraordinary story, charted through the experiences of those who lived under the sweeping searchlights of the omnious watchtowers and ending with accounts from the seven remaining men who broke out that March night over 60 years ago - the last of the Great Escapers.

La Gran Evasión es uno de los episodios más célebres de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Transcurridos 60 años del suceso, ha llegado el momento de rendir homenaje al ingenio de los hombres que hicieron posible esta audaz fuga. La Gran Evasion cuenta la historia de los oficiales que lograron atravesar la alambrada de espino y eludir las torres de vigilancia del Stalag Luft III, el modelico y supuestamente impenetrable campo de prisioneros que Goring ordeno construir. Algunos de ellos protagonizaron otros osados intentos de fuga, como el celebre episodio del Caballo de Madera, que inspiro tambien un clasico del cine, o la poco conocida evasion de Sachsenhausen orquestada por cinco supervivientes de la Gran Evasion que, por orden personal de Hitler, fueron encerrados en el famoso campo de concentracion para que murieran alli. Tambien se revela el importante papel que desempeño el Stalag Luft III en las operaciones de inteligencia aliadas dentro de la Europa ocupada: los prisioneros extendieron una intrincada red de espionaje a traves de la cual proporcionaron a Londres y Washington detalles del despliegue militar y del nivel de las operaciones enemigas y transmitieron informacion sobre la efectividad de los ataques aereos. El autor no olvida la vertiente tragica del heroico episodio: cincuenta de los participantes en la Gran Evasion fueron asesinados por la Gestapo. Analiza sus muertes y la investigacion llevada a cabo despues de la guerra para llevar ante la justicia a los asesinos.

The Great Escape was one of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War. After the attempt to break 200 men out of Hermann Grings escape-proof prisoner-of-war camp, 76 Allied officers managed to create havoc behind enemy lines before most were eventually recaptured. Now, over 60 years after the event, the ingenuity of the masterminds behind this audacious break-out is celebrated.The Great Escapers tells the story of these men who managed to break free from the supposedly impenetrable barbed wire and watchtowers of Stalag Luft III, Grings showcase prison camp near Sagan. Some of them were also involved in other daring escape attempts, including the famous Wooden Horse episode, also turned into a classic film, and the little-known Sachsenhausen break-out, engineered by five Great Escape survivors sent to die in the notorious concentration camp on Hitlers personal orders. Also revealed is the important role Stalag Luft III played in Allied intelligence operations within occupied Europe: the prisoners developed an intricate espionage network, feeding details of military deployments and strength levels back home and relaying details about the accuracy of bombing raids. Tragically, 50 of those involved in the Great Escape were murdered by the Gestapo. The author examines their deaths and the post-war investigation to bring their killers to justice. The Great Escapers is an extraordinary story, charted through the experiences of those who lived under the sweeping searchlights of the ominous watchtowers and ending with accounts from the seven remaining men who broke out that March night over 60 years ago - the last of the Great Escapers.

The Dodger is the long-awaited story of Johnny Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape.Of all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann Gorings escape proof camp in the famous episode of March 1944, Johnny Dodge was the most intriguing. American-born Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the Great Escape. Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitlers interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche Nazi apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnnys adventurous life.The Dodger draws upon Dodges voluminous private papers, including photographs taken inside prison camps and letters home, casting revealing new light on the myth of the Great Escape.

During the last months of Hitlers Berlin, an estimated 30,000 German teenagers perished defending their beloved Fhrer in the Russian onslaught. Armin Lehmann was one of the few boy soldiers who escaped the bloodbath. Like every other member of the Hitler Youth, Armin would have given his life gladly for his leader, but he was not to be sacrificed to the enemy at the gate. Instead, he was chosen to serve in the German High Commands bunker complex. It was a stroke of fate that brought him into the company of the most notorious Nazis of Hitlers hated Reich, including Martin Bormann, Goebbels and, of course, the Fhrer himself. When Hitler greeted Armin, the 16-year-old boy knew he had been granted a unique part in history.In Hitlers Bunker is Armins eyewitness account of the Nazi apocalypse. It is also the story of how his unquestioning fanaticism won him that role in the final act of the Third Reich. It takes us back to his boyhood and the brutal SS father who instilled the Nazis hateful creed in his son. It follows Armins odyssey through the ranks of the Hitler Youth and shares his teenage anguish over his doomed love for a beautiful German nurse. It is the story of Armins gradual realisation of the full horror of what he had been part of, and recounts his quest for the truth, which took him in the footsteps of Mahatma Ghandi and to a meeting with Albert Schweitzer, the missionary and theologian. Above all, In Hitlers Bunker is the story of how one man, instead of running away from his past, confronted it and found peace, at last.