The Resource Zero Night : the untold story of World War Two's greatest escape, Mark Felton
Zero Night : the untold story of World War Two's greatest escape, Mark Felton
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- Summary
- "On August 30, 1942--Zero Night--40 Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as the officers boldly stormed the huge doublefences at Oflag Prison. Employing wooden ladders and bridges previously disguised as bookshelves, the highly coordinated effort succeeded and set 36 men free into the German countryside. Later known as the 'Warburg Wire Job', fellow prisoner and fighterace Douglas Bader once described the attempt as 'the most brilliant escape conception of this war'. The first author to tackle this remarkable story in detail, historian Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape and the adventures of those escapees who managed to elude 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 rip-roaring adventure is all the more thrilling because it really happened"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 299 p.
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain by Icon Books Ltd"--Title page verso
- Contents
-
- A note on the text
- Prologue
- Barbed Wire Horizon
- Trial and Error
- The Wire
- Short Circuit
- Diversions
- "Big X"
- Operation Timber
- Practice Makes Perfect
- The Road Less Travelled
- Pack Up Your Troubles
- Fifteen Yards to Freedom
- Zero Night
- "Another British Evacuation"
- A Walk in the Woods
- "Hande hoch!"
- The Bitter Road
- Three Blind Mice
- Comet Line
- The Last Frontier
- Epilogue
- Maps
- Isbn
- 9781250073747
- Label
- Zero Night : the untold story of World War Two's greatest escape
- Title
- Zero Night
- Title remainder
- the untold story of World War Two's greatest escape
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Felton
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "On August 30, 1942--Zero Night--40 Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as the officers boldly stormed the huge doublefences at Oflag Prison. Employing wooden ladders and bridges previously disguised as bookshelves, the highly coordinated effort succeeded and set 36 men free into the German countryside. Later known as the 'Warburg Wire Job', fellow prisoner and fighterace Douglas Bader once described the attempt as 'the most brilliant escape conception of this war'. The first author to tackle this remarkable story in detail, historian Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape and the adventures of those escapees who managed to elude 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 rip-roaring adventure is all the more thrilling because it really happened"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1974-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Felton, Mark
- Dewey number
- 940.54/7243565
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Prisoner-of-war escapes
- Oflag VI B (Concentration camp)
- Prisoners of war
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- HISTORY / Military / World War II
- Label
- Zero Night : the untold story of World War Two's greatest escape, Mark Felton
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain by Icon Books Ltd"--Title page verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- A note on the text -- Prologue -- Barbed Wire Horizon -- Trial and Error -- The Wire -- Short Circuit -- Diversions -- "Big X" -- Operation Timber -- Practice Makes Perfect -- The Road Less Travelled -- Pack Up Your Troubles -- Fifteen Yards to Freedom -- Zero Night -- "Another British Evacuation" -- A Walk in the Woods -- "Hande hoch!" -- The Bitter Road -- Three Blind Mice -- Comet Line -- The Last Frontier -- Epilogue -- Maps
- Control code
- BK0016237681
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 299 p.
- Isbn
- 9781250073747
- Lccn
- 2015017591
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Zero Night : the untold story of World War Two's greatest escape, Mark Felton
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain by Icon Books Ltd"--Title page verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- A note on the text -- Prologue -- Barbed Wire Horizon -- Trial and Error -- The Wire -- Short Circuit -- Diversions -- "Big X" -- Operation Timber -- Practice Makes Perfect -- The Road Less Travelled -- Pack Up Your Troubles -- Fifteen Yards to Freedom -- Zero Night -- "Another British Evacuation" -- A Walk in the Woods -- "Hande hoch!" -- The Bitter Road -- Three Blind Mice -- Comet Line -- The Last Frontier -- Epilogue -- Maps
- Control code
- BK0016237681
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- xvii, 299 p.
- Isbn
- 9781250073747
- Lccn
- 2015017591
- Other physical details
- ill.
Subject
- Oflag VI B (Concentration camp)
- Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Germany | Warburg -- History -- 20th century
- HISTORY / Military / World War II
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany | Warburg
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
- Prisoners of war -- Germany | Warburg -- History -- 20th century
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