Colditz Prisoners of the Castle - Ben MacIntyre torrent

Category: History, Military, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Escape POW WWII

Written by Ben MacIntyre
Read by Ben MacIntyre
Format: MP3
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Unabridged

Colditz
Prisoners of the Castle
By: Ben Macintyre
Narrated by: Ben MacIntyre
Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 15-09-2022
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.

The astonishing inside story, revealed for the first time by bestselling historian Ben Macintyre, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of class conflict, homosexuality, espionage, insanity and farce. Through an astonishing range of material, Macintyre reveals a remarkable cast of characters, wider than previously seen and hitherto hidden from history, taking in prisoners and captors who were living cheek-by-jowl in a thrilling game of cat and mouse.

From the elitist members of the Colditz Bullingdon Club to America’s oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent, the soldier-prisoners of Colditz were courageous and resilient as well as vulnerable and fearful—and astonishingly imaginative in their desperate escape attempts. Deeply researched and full of incredible human stories, this is the definitive book on Colditz.

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