The Wooden Horse

Name: The Wooden Horse
SKU: 21679009
Price: 37.00 NZD
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The Classic World War II Story of Escape

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Eric Williams

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Paperback / softback

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Eric Williams, Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, the infamous German POW camp. Digging an underground tunnel hidden beneath a wooden vaulting horse, he managed to escape after ten months and, accompanied by a fellow officer, made his way back to England. In this thinly fictionalized retelling, Williams relates his story in three distinct phases: the construction of a tunnel (its entrance camouflaged by the wooden vaulting horse in the exercise yard) and hiding the large quantities of sand he dug; the escape; and the journey on foot and by train to the port of Stettin, where Williams and his fellow escapee stowed away aboard a Danish ship, the Norensen. From painstakingly digging the tunnel to secretly depositing the dirt and gravel around the camp to dodging searchlights and search dogs and climbing barbed wire fences, this is an escape story hard to beat. For sheer heroism, courage and perserverance, this classic is arguably the most ingenious POW escape of WWII. The Wooden Horse became a legend among servicemen long before its publication in 1949 and remained one ever since.

Author Biography:

Eric Williams was an RAF pilot in WWII. He was shot down over Germany and managed to evade capture for three days before being found and sent to prison in Poland. After a successful escape, he was recaptured and transferred to Stalag Luft III, from which he also escaped. He died in 1983.

Release date NZ

July 1st, 2014

Author

Eric Williams

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

272

Dimensions

150x210x20

ISBN-13

9781628736694

Product ID

21679009

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