The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century

During World War I, twenty-nine British prisoners of war risk their lives by tunneling beneath a German prisoner-of-war camp. The book recounts their escape from a camp holding troublesome Allied prisoners, including many skilled at escape. A group of pilots carries out the plan and makes it out of enemy territory during a difficult period of the war. Archival photographs, diagrams, and back matter accompany this account.