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True Story Of the Great Escape

Writen by LOUISE WILLIAMS
Publisher Allen & Unwin
Year 2015
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Book Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781743313893
Date Published
2015
Book Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication Date: 2015
ISBN:9781743313893
Condition: Good (Some wear, creases and warping/bending seen on book cover. Interior pages are still clean and tight)

Shot down in 1942, young Australian fighter pilot John Williams DFC became a POW in the notorious Stalag Luft III camp in Germany. John had joined the air force shortly before the outbreak of war and, in the larrikin tradition, led his squadron into air combat over the deserts of Libya and Egypt dressed in sandals and shorts.

John and his best mate Rusty Kierath were among the 76 POWs who tunnelled their way out of the supposedly escape-proof camp under the noses of their German guards in what later became the Hollywood blockbuster, The Great Escape. Their families never learned what really happened once the pair made it out into the forest.

John's niece Louise Williams has pieced together his life, from his upbringing in a tight-knit family hit hard by the Depression, to his exploits in the air, and the many missing details of the tragic escape. It is a powerful and intimate story of one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II.