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02836aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 C181876CB69E11E592835DCEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160109010055 008 140918s2014 enkabf b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2014495271 020 $a 9781848317192 020 $a 1848317190 020 $a 9781848317925 020 $a 1848317921 035 $a (OCoLC)892818709 040 $a CDX $b eng $e rda $c CDX $d UAB $d YDXCP $d DLC $d AU@ $d OCLCQ $d ATIGN $d SILO 043 $a e-gx--- 082 04 $a 940.5 $2 23 100 1 $a Felton, Mark, $d 1974- 245 10 $a Zero night : $b the untold story of World War Two's most daring great escape / $c Mark Felton 264 1 $a London : $b Icon Books Ltd, $c 2014 300 $a xix, 299 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and index 505 0 $a Machine generated contents note: 1. Barbed Wire Horizon -- 2. Trial and Error -- 3. The Wire -- 4. Short Circuit -- 5. Diversions -- 6.BÌig X' -- 7. Operation Timber -- 8. Practice Makes Perfect -- 9. The Road Less Travelled -- 10. Pack Up Your Troubles -- 11. Fifteen Yards to Freedom -- 12. Zero Night -- 13.AÌnother British Evacuation' -- 14.A Walk in the Woods -- 15.HÌande hoch!' -- 16. The Bitter Road -- 17. Three Blind Mice -- 18.Comet Line -- 19. The Last Frontier 520 $a Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany: On the night of 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa staged the most audacious mass escape of the Second World War. It was the first 'Great Escape' but instead of tunnelling, the escapers boldly went over the huge perimeter fences using wooden scaling contraptions. This was the notorious 'Warburg Wire Job', described by fellow prisoner and fighter ace Douglas Bader as 'the most brilliant escape conception of this war'. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as prisoners charged the camp's double perimeter fences. Telling this remarkable story in full for the first time, historian Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape itself and the adventures of those who eluded the Germans, as well as the courage of the civilians who risked their lives to help them in enemy territory. Fantastically intimate and told with a novelist's eye for drama and detail, this is a rip-roaring adventure story, all the more thrilling for being true 610 20 $a Oflag IVC (Concentration camp) $x History 650 0 $a Prisoner-of-war escapes $z Colditz $z Colditz 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, German 655 7 $a War and conflict $2 local 941 $a 1 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305034527.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C181876CB69E11E592835DCEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search