THE GREAT ESCAPE
THE GREAT ESCAPE - A CANADIAN STORY
By: Ted Barris
Pub.: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2013
Most of us are familiar with the story of the mass escape from the German POW camp, Stalag Luft III, either from reading Paul Brickhill's book, "the Great Escape" or watching the film of the same name. I would like to draw your attention to this latest telling of the story, written by a Canadian, and focusing on the Canadian flyers who played a pivotal role in the escape organization in the camp. Author Ted Barris has drawn on several published and unpublished memoirs and interviews of former POWs to give us a new look at this story. He draws together the whole story of several Canadian POWs from their early life and enrollment, through their battles and imprisonment, their work in supporting the escape and, finally their release and life after they returned home. I found the book to be a very interesting read and can recommend it to the other members.
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The day the government succeeds in taking away our dress uniforms, badges and colours, and all the so called "non-functional" items; they will find themselves with an army that cannot defend them. Robert Heinlein, "Starship Troopers"
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