Description: One night in 1944, eighty airmen escaped a German POW compound in Poland. The event became known as "The Great Escape." Ted Barris writes of the planners, task leaders, and key players in the escape attempt, those who got away, those who didn't, and their families at home.
Review Quotes: Military historian Ted Barris's seventeenth book of non-fiction...follows his well-honed and highly successful approach of combining vivid characters with thumping narrative.-- "Globe and Mail"