The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill Ebook The Great Escape currently available for review only, if you need complete ebook The Great Escape please fill out registration form to access in our databases Download here >> Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition (August 17, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0393325792 ISBN-13: 978-0393325799 Product Dimensions:5.6 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches ISBN10 0393325792 ISBN13 978-0393325 Download here >> Description: A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale.―Philadelphia InquirerThey were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men―every one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year. Made into the classic movie starring Steve McQueen. 16 pages of photographs Australian Paul Brickhill, a Spitfire pilot who flew in World War Ii in RAFs 92 Squadron, and that was shot down and taken prisoner in Tunisia in 1943, wrote three famous books in his career after the war: REACH FOR THE SKY (the Douglas Bader history), THE DAM BUSTERS (about RAFs 617 Squadron and the raids against the German dams in the Ruhr), and THE GREAT ESCAPE (about the famous escape from a German Air Force personnel prisoner camp in Sagan).Although all three were made into movies, THE GREAT ESCAPE is by far the most well known, basically due to the fact that it received the full Hollywwod treatment (for better or for worse), in the film of the same name released in 1963. And also, of course, because of the sheer atrocity committed by the Nazis against the fugitives.Brickhill is a fact teller. You will not find much about specific characters, deep emotions, despair or whatever. Its basically a description about what the almost 600 hundred people involved in any manner with the escape attempt worked. There were the stooges (security), the forgers, the compass makers, the tailors, the planners, the bribers, of course, the diggers!The book goes all the way until the day of the escape, which was doomed since the beginning: terrifying cold outside; not being capable to find the railway access to buy train tickets, in the night; the exit hole being outside the forest surrounding the camp; frozen ground delaying the opening of the exiting hole by one hour and a half; some sand falls in the tunnel...The result is that Roger Bushell (the master planner) and other leaders (Group Captain Massey, Wings Day) knew before hand that almost everybody would get caught, mainly the hardarsers (people that eould try to escape by foot and that did not speak German). Their main aim was simply to act according to the officers code, trying to escape and harrassing the enemy anyway they could.The trouble is that, even in their worst dreams, the fugitives never thought they were going to be shot. Maybe Roger Bushell knew he COULD be executed, but all the others dont. Roger was such a Tasmanian devil, that the Germans had had enough. He was considered almost a saboteur. Caught in civilian clothes trying to escape, it was all they needed to shot him.Only three men managed to escape: two Norwegian flghter pilots made the ultimate perfect escape, and in a couple dyas were already in England. The other man took longer, going through Spain, and reached England intact.Then, the book goes about the hunt for the executioners, vile Gestapo men most of them. Mostly, it was not the case of receiving orders. Most of them received the orders and did the killings wih gusto. Heroically shooting people in the back of the dead.... Fifteen men were executed in 1948. Other men were found guilty in later years, but their death sentences were comuted to life imprisonment. Hard feelings were already going low...As for the movie, it is what is: Hollywood. A classic, yes, but once you read the book, you will get a little bit angry about the movie. Firts: there were no Americans amongst the 76 fugitives (and the movie inlcude two main American characters, McQueen and James Garner); there were no runaways with motorcycle or planes (two of the most important moments of the movie); the 50 men executed were not shot at once, in the same place (it was in pairs or four at the most, in different places); there is no German character other than the commandat, and in the book there are at least two strong German guards (Rubberneck, for example). However, I understand they had to create dialogues and and composite characters, because, other than Roger Bushells single mindedness, Brickhill gives the reader almost nothing in terms of character traits.A very good book, deservedly placed among the classics of World War II literature. The Great Escape in History pdf books The Great Escape He followed up this book in 1964 with Wait Without Idols. 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