Victory Boxset: Five Classic True Stories from WWII By Paul Brickhill Paperback 0330455095 Nonfiction Victory Boxset: Five Classic True Stories from WWII Victory: Five Classic Stories from WWII, a boxset of five paperbacks published by Pan Macmillan consisting of Max Hastings Bomber Command; C. E. Lucas Phillips Cockleshell Heroes; Major P. R. Reids Colditz: The Full Story; Paul Brickhills The Dambusters; and Michael Smiths Station X.
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From Rosetta Books Though The Great Escape is a novel its basic story is true and the novels author Paul Brickhill 1916 91 was a participant in it Brickhill an Australian had flown missions against the Germans in Tunisia for the Royal Australian Air Force when he was shot down in 1943 Locked away and bored in Silesia in Luft Stalag III he and his fellow prisoners concocted an escape plan a daring idea that would result in a mass escape from the Germans Of the 76 officers who escaped only three were successful Hitler himself ordered the execution of 47 of the men who were recaptured Still the escape remains one of the great heroic stories of World War II.
EBook Victory boxset A native of Melbourne Brickhill had begun a career as a newspaper rep From Rosetta Books Though The Great Escape is a novel its basic story is true and the novel s author Paul Brickhill 1916 91 was a participant in it Brickhill an Australian had flown missions against the Germans in Tunisia for the Royal Australian Air Force when he was shot down in 1943 Locked away and bored in Silesia in Luft Stalag III he and his fellow prisoners concocted an escape plan a daring idea that would result in a mass escape from the Germans Of the 76 officers who escaped only three were successful Hitler himself ordered the execution of 47 of the men who were recaptured Still the escape remains one of the great heroic stories of World War II.
Box set victory A native of Melbourne Brickhill had begun a career as a newspaper reporter at the Sydney Sun when war was declared in 1939 His instincts as a reporter stuck with him during his incarceration by the Germans as he collected stories from his fellow prisoners that became the foundation for his later work After the war Brickhill sought to go back to newspapering but quickly abandoned it to begin work on his first book entitled Escape to Danger 1946 about his experiences in the POW camp From this he drew the story of The Great Escape published four years later The following year Brickhill published The Dam Busters an acclaimed account of pinpoint bombing raids by the 617 Squadron followed by an anthology of POW stories entitled Escape or Die 1952 and Reach for the Sky 1954 a biography of aviator Douglas Bader site_link Victory Five Classic Stories from WWII a boxset of five paperbacks published by Pan Macmillan consisting of Max Hasting s Bomber Command C E Lucas Phillips Cockleshell Heroes Major P R Reid s Colditz The Full Story Paul Brickhill s The Dambusters and Michael Smith s Station X Victory Boxset Five Classic True Stories from WWII.