The wooden horse / / Eric Williams
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| Autore: |
Williams Eric <1911-1983, >
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| Titolo: |
The wooden horse / / Eric Williams
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| Pubblicazione: | Barnsley, South Yorkshire : , : Pen & Sword Military, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 940.547243 |
| Soggetto topico: | World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, German |
| Prisoner-of-war escapes | |
| World War, 1939-1945 | |
| Escaped prisoners of war - Germany | |
| Escaped prisoners of war - Great Britain | |
| Note generali: | First published in Great Britain in 1949. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Explanation; Inside; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; Outside; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; Limbo; 1; 2; 3 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | It is over fifty years since the critics of the day acclaimed The Wooden Horse as a superbly told story of the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War. Millions of readers agreed, and the book became a modern classic. This revised and expanded edition tells the tale. The escape itself was conceived on classical lines. The Greeks built a wooden horse and by means of it got into the city of Troy; in 1943 two British officers built a wooden horse and by means of it got out of a German prison camp. Together with a third companion, they were the only British prisoners ever to escap |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The wooden horse |
| ISBN: | 1-4738-1977-6 |
| 1-4738-0045-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910693992303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Military Classics