The Great Escape
Penguin Main Series #1187, 1st edition 1957.
They 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.
Condition grading: Good Minus. Crease down left side of front cover. Some tanning to top of front cover. Some grubbiness to rear cover. Some creasing to slightly grubby spine. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin Main Series #1187, 1st edition 1957.
They 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.
Condition grading: Good Minus. Crease down left side of front cover. Some tanning to top of front cover. Some grubbiness to rear cover. Some creasing to slightly grubby spine. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin Main Series #1187, 1st edition 1957.
They 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.
Condition grading: Good Minus. Crease down left side of front cover. Some tanning to top of front cover. Some grubbiness to rear cover. Some creasing to slightly grubby spine. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
