With 7 drawings/maps by Ley Kenyon and 16 b/w photographs.
Fourth impression, March 1951 (same month as the 1st edition). Bookplate on the front free endpaper indicating the book was awarded to a student "for excellent work" at Foyle College, Londonderry. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. The inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Steve McQueen, 'The Great Escape' chronicles the largest Allied escape attempt-using their bare hands and crude homemade tools to dig their way out-from a German POW camp during World War II. Made into the classic movie starring Steve McQueen. 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.
It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance. 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 were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp.
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