Colditz: The Definitive History by Henry Chancellor

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Colditz high security camp contained every persistent escaper, troublemaker and valuable hostage captured by the Germans in World War II. It was considered escape-proof, but the very opposite proved to be true. The prisoners pooled their collected talents to create the greatest escape academy of the war.

Henry Chancellor tells the prisoners' own story. Many have never spoken before, but using over fifty original interviews, the English, French, Dutch and Polish officers, and their guards describe their experiences in the notorious castle, and their escape across Nazi Germany.