Ben MacIntyre has had a successful and lucrative career as a writer mostly of war stories, predominantly set during the second World War. Operation Mincemeat, the story of the cadaver that helped to ...

The Colditz Story is an intriguing and occasionally humorous depiction of the real-life adventures of British and Polish prisoners of war who plot an escape from a German maximum-security prison in ...

It is always pleasing when you are reading a book about far and foreign places and a New Zealander suddenly appears in the narrative. That moment happens near the end of Ben Macintyre’s latest ...

The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the ...

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Released a mere decade after the conclusion of World War Two, this war film brilliantly encapsulates the true terrors of the era, boasting an all-star cast. The Colditz Story is hailed as a classic ...

Having served as the legless Battle of Britain hero's batman during three years of captivity - carrying him up and down stairs, cooking his meals and washing his clothes - Ross assumed his former boss ...

It was 1943 and the German in question, Stabsfeldwebel (Sergeant Major) Fritz Rothenberger, was the man who carried out nightly inspections of the sentries at the castle which held hundreds of the ...

THE COLDITZ STORY (288 pp.) —P R. Reid—Lippincott ($3.95). Two British officers, talking things over one day in June 1940, agreed that what they had chiefly in common was an intense desire to be ...

When Billy Pilgrim, the protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, is captured by the Germans in December 1944, he gets taken first to a POW camp near the Czech border. Most of the prisoners ...

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The Colditz Story portrays the real-life experiences of Allied prisoners of war held in the formidable German fortress Colditz Castle during World War II. It focuses on their inventive escape ...