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Paul Brickhill

Australia · WWII — POW escapes and air war

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 cover
The Great Escape 1950 · 264 pages

The mass tunnel breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 — 76 airmen out, 50 murdered by the Gestapo on recapture.

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The Dam Busters cover
The Dam Busters 1951 · 288 pages

617 Squadron, the bouncing bomb, and the breaching of the Ruhr dams in May 1943.

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Events Covered

1945 Bombing of Dresden