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Paul Brickhill
About
Spitfire pilot, POW in Stalag Luft III, and participant in the tunnel scheme he later immortalised. The Great Escape and The Dam Busters founded the modern escape-and-mission genre.
Books in Database (2)
The Great Escape 1950 · 264 pages
Popular History The mass tunnel breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 — 76 airmen out, 50 murdered by the Gestapo on recapture.
The Dam Busters 1951 · 288 pages
Popular History 617 Squadron, the bouncing bomb, and the breaching of the Ruhr dams in May 1943.