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    Moonless Night: The Wartime Escape Epic

    By Jimmy James

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    From the moment he was shot down to the final whistle, Jimmy James' one aim as a POW of the Germans was to escape.

    The Great Escaper describes his experiences and those of his fellow prisoners in the most gripping and thrilling manner. The author made more than 12 escape attempts including his participation in The Great Escape, where 50 of the 76 escapees were executed in cold blood on Hitler's orders.

    On re-capture, James was sent to the infamous Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp where, undeterred, he tunnelled out. That was not the end of his remarkable story.

    Moonless Night has strong claim to be the finest escape story of the Second World War.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateSep 22, 2008
    ISBN9781848845084
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    Jimmy James

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      This book is a collection of escape stories told by a British prisoner of war. Shot down over Holland in the summer of 1940, the author was imprisoned with other British and Allied officers in various camps around Germany until the end of the war with Germany in 1945. During these many years he engaged in several escape attempts, some of which got him out of prison, but he was always recaptured. Toward the end of the war he was lucky not to have been shot by the increasingly desperate German captors. He was part of the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III that was later portrayed in the popular film.The book is a page turner as the reader follows the ingenuity and passion of the prisoners in plotting various escapes. There were only three ways: tunnelling, walking out the gates, and scaling the walls and wire. The author often overloads his narrative with details about servicemen and their records that would interest only military buffs and fellow officers. Nevertheless I highly recommended this book to the general reader for the fascinating subject matter.