The Wooden Horse : The Classic World War II Story of Escape ebook
The Wooden Horse : The Classic World War II Story of Escape ebook
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Author: Eric Williams
Page Count: 272 pages
Published Date: 21 Aug 2014
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781628736694
File size: 11 Mb
Download Link: The Wooden Horse The Classic World War II Story of Escape
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Eric Williams, Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, the infamous German POW camp. Digging an underground tunnel hidden beneath a wooden vaulting horse, he managed to escape after ten months and, accompanied by a fellow officer, made his way back to England. In this thinly fictionalized retelling, Williams relates his story in three distinct phases: the construction of a tunnel (its entrance camouflaged by the wooden vaulting horse in the exercise yard) and hiding the large quantities of sand he dug; the escape; and the journey on foot and by train to the port of Stettin, where Williams and his fellow escapee stowed away aboard a Danish ship, the Norensen. From painstakingly digging the tunnel to secretly depositing the dirt and gravel around the camp to dodging searchlights and search dogs and climbing barbed wire fences, this is an escape story hard to beat. For sheer heroism, courage and perserverance, this classic is arguably the most ingenious POW escape of WWII. The Wooden Horse became a legend among servicemen long before its publication in 1949 and remained one ever since.
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The Wooden Horse : The Classic World War II Story of Escape. Eric Williams
Author: Eric Williams
Page Count: 272 pages
Published Date: 21 Aug 2014
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781628736694
File size: 11 Mb
Download Link: The Wooden Horse The Classic World War II Story of Escape
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Eric Williams, Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, the infamous German POW camp. Digging an underground tunnel hidden beneath a wooden vaulting horse, he managed to escape after ten months and, accompanied by a fellow officer, made his way back to England. In this thinly fictionalized retelling, Williams relates his story in three distinct phases: the construction of a tunnel (its entrance camouflaged by the wooden vaulting horse in the exercise yard) and hiding the large quantities of sand he dug; the escape; and the journey on foot and by train to the port of Stettin, where Williams and his fellow escapee stowed away aboard a Danish ship, the Norensen. From painstakingly digging the tunnel to secretly depositing the dirt and gravel around the camp to dodging searchlights and search dogs and climbing barbed wire fences, this is an escape story hard to beat. For sheer heroism, courage and perserverance, this classic is arguably the most ingenious POW escape of WWII. The Wooden Horse became a legend among servicemen long before its publication in 1949 and remained one ever since.
Read online The Wooden Horse : The Classic World War II Story of Escape Buy and read online The Wooden Horse : The Classic World War II Story of Escape Download and read The Wooden Horse : The Classic World War II Story of Escape for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Wooden Horse : The Classic World War II Story of Escape ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent
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