![]() With unprecedented access to declassified archives, previously unseen photographs, private papers and the vast Imperial War Museum Colditz sound archive, Macintyre reveals a remarkable cast of characters hitherto hidden from history. The astonishing inside story, revealed for the first time in this new book by bestselling historian Ben Macintyre and in his usual gripping style, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of snobbery, class conflict, homosexuality, bullying, espionage, boredom, insanity and farce. But that tale contains only part of the truth. ![]() Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchanged and unchallenged for 70 years. In a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop, an unlikely band of prisoners plotted a daring escape from the clutches of their Nazi captors. The bestselling historian with the real story of WW2's 'inescapable' Nazi prison camp ![]()
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