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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
Brickell was born in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, to Larry Jean (Sellers) Linden and Paul Edward Brickell. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was raised with her older sister, Laura Strain. She attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts [ 3 ] in Dallas, and later studied at Southern Methodist University [ 4 ...
His father, Paul Brickhill was a former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) soldier and war vet. Therefore, he was in exile in the UK at that time of Tomas's birth. However, soon after the Zimbabwean independence, family returned to Zimbabwe. [3] After returning, his father ran the influential arts and culture space called 'The Book ...
Minchin married Margot Brickhill (née Slater), who was previously married to Paul Brickhill, in 1964. They had two children, Catherine Jeanette (25 Oct 1965 – 28 Mar 1968) and William Devon Richard (27 Mar 1969 – ).
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.
The Book Café is a platform for free cultural expression in Harare, Zimbabwe, since 1993.Book Cafe operates in partnership with leading cultural NGO Pamberi Trust to offer both diverse entertainment to the public at large as well as a space for artistic development – especially a platform for younger artists. book Cafe is known for its diversity of music and puts on a musical show almost ...
Reach for the Sky is a 1954 Australian radio serial based on the book of the same name by Australian author Paul Brickhill which was a biography of Douglas Bader.It was one of the most acclaimed Australian radio dramas of the 1950s, and a notable success for Rod Taylor who played Bader.
Paul Brickhill: 1916–1991 Australian author, screenwriter, and fighter pilot [139] Nicholas Mosley: 1923–1917 English author [140] [141] Robert Hugh Benson: 1871–1914 English Catholic priest and writer, popular preacher [142] Machado de Assis: 1839–1908 Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright [143] David G. Compton: 1930–2023