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Human Game: The True Story of the 'Great Escape' Murders… Hardcover
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Item specifics
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- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780425252734
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0425252736
ISBN-13
9780425252734
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113153523
Product Key Features
Book Title
Human Game : the True Story of the 'great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Germany, Military / World War II, Military / General, Genocide & War Crimes, Europe / Great Britain / General, Criminology
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-005330
Reviews
"A gut-wrenching account of World War II's Great Escape and its brutal aftermath. Simon Read's riveting tale...will touch your soul and increase your admiration for the 'Greatest Generation.'"--Colonel Cole C. Kingseed, USA (Ret.), New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beyond Band of Brothers "Simon Read has done an impressive job stitching together a highly readable and informative story from various sources, and making it live again."--Jim DeFelice, bestselling author of Rangers at Dieppe , Omar Bradley: General at War , and American Sniper, "A gut-wrenching account of World War II's Great Escape and its brutal aftermath. Simon Read's riveting tale...will touch your soul and increase your admiration for the 'Greatest Generation.'"--Colonel Cole C. Kingseed, USA (Ret.), New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beyond Band of Brothers "Simon Read has done an impressive job stitching together a highly readable and informative story from various sources, and making it live again."--Jim DeFelice, bestselling author of Rangers at Dieppe , Omar Bradley: General at War , and American Sniper, "A gut-wrenching account of World War II's Great Escape and its brutal aftermath. Simon Read's riveting tale...will touch your soul and increase your admiration for the 'Greatest Generation.'"-Colonel Cole C. Kingseed, USA (Ret.), New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beyond Band of Brothers "Simon Read has done an impressive job stitching together a highly readable and informative story from various sources, and making it live again."-Jim DeFelice, bestselling author of Rangers at Dieppe , Omar Bradley: General at War , and American Sniper
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
940.54/7243812
Synopsis
In March and April of 1944, Gestapo gunmen killed fifty POWs a brutal act in defiance of international law and the Geneva Convention. This is the true story of the men who hunted them down. The mass breakout of seventy-six Allied airmen from the infamous Stalag Luft III became one of the greatest tales of World War II, immortalized in the film "The Great Escape." But where Hollywood s depiction fades to black, another incredible story begins... Not long after the escape, fifty of the recaptured airmen were taken to desolate killing fields throughout Germany and shot on the direct orders of Hitler. When the nature of these killings came to light, Churchill s government swore to pursue justice at any cost. A revolving team of military police, led by squadron leader Francis P. McKenna, was dispatched to Germany seventeen months after the killings to pick up a trail long gone cold. Amid the chaos of postwarGermany, divided between American, British, French, and Russian occupiers, McKenna and his men brought twenty-one Gestapo killers to justice in a hunt that spanned three years and took them into the darkest realms of Nazi fanaticism. In "Human Game," Simon Read tells this harrowing story as never before. Beginning inside Stalag Luft III and the Nazi High Command, through the grueling three-year manhunt, and into the final close of the case more than two decades later, Read delivers a clear-eyed and meticulously researched account of this often-overlooked saga of hard-won justice.", In March and April of 1944, Gestapo gunmen killed fifty POWs--a brutal act in defiance of international law and the Geneva Convention. This is the true story of the men who hunted them down. The mass breakout of seventy-six Allied airmen from the infamous Stalag Luft III became one of the greatest tales of World War II, immortalized in the film The Great Escape . But where Hollywood's depiction fades to black, another incredible story begins . . . Not long after the escape, fifty of the recaptured airmen were taken to desolate killing fields throughout Germany and shot on the direct orders of Hitler. When the nature of these killings came to light, Churchill's government swore to pursue justice at any cost. A revolving team of military police, led by squadron leader Francis P. McKenna, was dispatched to Germany seventeen months after the killings to pick up a trail long gone cold. Amid the chaos of postwar Germany, divided between American, British, French, and Russian occupiers, McKenna and his men brought twenty-one Gestapo killers to justice in a hunt that spanned three years and took them into the darkest realms of Nazi fanaticism. In Human Game , Simon Read tells this harrowing story as never before. Beginning inside Stalag Luft III and the Nazi High Command, through the grueling three-year manhunt, and into the final close of the case more than two decades later, Read delivers a clear-eyed and meticulously researched account of this often-overlooked saga of hard-won justice.
LC Classification Number
D804.G4R356 2012
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