Zero Night
eBook - ePub

Zero Night

The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape

  1. 318 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Zero Night

The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape

About this book

A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic World War II prison escape and the real-life adventures that followed.

"In this exciting book, Felton has captivatingly captured the bravery of the prisoners." ? Kirkus Reviews

"This is undeniably history as it should be told and a thundering good read." ? The Daily Mail (UK)

On August 30, 1942—"Zero Night"—forty Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as the officers boldly stormed the huge double fences at Oflag VI-B Prison. Employing wooden ladders and bridges previously disguised as bookshelves, the highly coordinated effort succeeded and set thirty-six men free into the German countryside. Later known as the "Warburg Wire Job," fellow prisoner and fighter ace Douglas Bader once described the attempt as "the most brilliant escape conception of this war."

The first author to tackle this remarkable story in detail, historian Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape and the adventures of those escapees who managed to elude 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 rip-roaring adventure is even more thrilling because it really happened.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. A note on the text
  8. Prologue
  9. 1. Barbed Wire Horizon
  10. 2. Trial and Error
  11. 3. The Wire
  12. 4. Short Circuit
  13. 5. Diversions
  14. 6. ‘Big X’
  15. 7. Operation Timber
  16. 8. Practice Makes Perfect
  17. 9. The Road Less Travelled
  18. 10. Pack Up Your Troubles
  19. 11. Fifteen Yards to Freedom
  20. 12. Zero Night
  21. 13. ‘Another British Evacuation’
  22. 14. A Walk in the Woods
  23. 15. ‘Hände hoch!’
  24. 16. The Bitter Road
  25. 17. Three Blind Mice
  26. 18. Comet Line
  27. 19. The Last Frontier
  28. Epilogue
  29. Maps
  30. Illustrations
  31. Bibliography
  32. Notes
  33. Index
  34. About the Author
  35. Newsletter Sign-up
  36. Contents
  37. Copyright