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If you want to know why I rated this book so poorly, please contact me privately. ( )

I don't often read non-fiction books, but when I was told about this one I had to read it. We had just finished watching the movie The Great Escape, so that was fresh in my mind when I began. This is the true story of what happened on March 24, 1944 at German Prisoner of War Camp (Stalag Luft II). That was the day that 80 prisoners escaped from the camp after crawling through a 365 foot long underground tunnel. This book explains the whole massive and incredible escape plan. The 2,000 plus prisoners at the camp were officers and enlisted men was made up of airmen who had been shot down in Germany. The book describes what life was like in the camp for the flyboys who had been captured. And it describes the incredible detail and the huge amount of planning and the work that went into this great escape plan. Contrary to the movie, though the escape was planned and executed by mostly RAF officers and enlisted men. The British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand airmen were the ones that were involved in this incredible attempt. There were some other nationalities including Americans, involved, but this was a RAF-led attempt. These were brave and very talented men and reading about this huge WWII escape left me in awe of all these men, as well as any other soldiers that were held in German prisoner of war camps. ( )