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  2. The Great Escape (book) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Escape is a 1950 book by Australian writer Paul Brickhill (1916–1991), that provides an insider's account of the March 1944 mass escape from the Nazi German Luftwaffe (Air Force) prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth enemy airmen.

  3. Paul Brickhill - Wikipedia

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    Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 1916 – 23 April 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war, and author who wrote The Great Escape, The Dam Busters, and Reach for the Sky. Early life

  4. List of Allied airmen from the Great Escape - Wikipedia

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    The "Great Escape" was a World War II mass escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III.It resulted in the murder of 50 recaptured escapees.. It was the basis of The Great Escape, a book by Paul Brickhill describing the escape and The Great Escape, a film based on the book.

  5. The Great Escape (radio serial) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Escape is a 1954 Australian radio serial by Morris West based on the novel by Paul Brickhill produced by Gordon Grimsdale. Grimsdale and West also did radio adaptations of Brickhill's books The Dam Busters and Reach for the Sky. [2] [3] The three were all recorded in Sydney, where West had moved following the end of his first marriage ...

  6. The Great Escape (film) - Wikipedia

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    Adapted from Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name, the film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III in World War II. The film made numerous compromises for its commercial appeal, including its portrayal of American involvement in ...

  7. 32 of the Most Memorable Reader’s Digest Stories Ever - AOL

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    “Tunnel to Freedom” by Flight Lt. Paul Brickhill of the Royal Australian Air Forces, as told to Allan A. Michie, December 1945. In the real-life Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners sprung ...

  8. Great Escape - Wikipedia

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    The Great Escape, a 1950 book by Paul Brickhill describing the 1944 Stalag Luft III escape; The Great Escape: Or, The Sewer Story (1973), a children's story about sewer alligators by Peter Lippman (Golden Press)

  9. John Pohe - Wikipedia

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    Paul Brickhill (2004). The Great Escape. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-32579-9. Alan Burgess (1990). The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-097-9. Albert P. Clark (2005). 33 Months as a POW in Stalag Luft III: A World War II Airman Tells His Story. Fulcrum Pub.