Prisoners of the castle : an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison / Ben Macintyre.
Prisoners of the castle : an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison / Ben Macintyre.
By
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Macintyre, Ben, 1963-
Publication Date
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2022
Publication Information
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Toronto : Signal,
Physical Description
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xvii, 342 p, [32] p. of plates : col. ill., maps.
Subject Term
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Prisoners of war -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945.
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
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The myth of Colditz, the most infamous prison in history, has stood unchallenged for 70 years: prisoners of war, mustaches firmly set on stiff upper lips, defying the Nazis by tunnelling out of a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop. Like all legends, that story contains only part of the truth. In Ben Macintyre's brilliant, cliche-smashing new history, he offers a vision of Colditz previously unimagined, a story of much more than an escape, just as the prison's inamtes were far more complicated than the cardboard saints depicted in post-war pop culture. Colditz was a miniature replica of office-class society at the time, only far stranger: a lethal, high stakes boarding school surrounded by barbed wire, initially containing prisoners of all Allied nations, including Canada, but eventually only Britons and Americans, a heavily guarded cage with its own culture, eccentricities, and internal tensions. In intimate and compelling detail, Macintyre explores what happens to people when they are locked up without committing a crime and with no idea when or if they might be liberated.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780771001970
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