The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century European History and the complexity of the

and the complexity of the world they helped create

Parkin’s narrative seldom strains for effect

Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century

By Sean McMeekin

in this thought-provoking and meticulously researched account

The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century European History and the complexity of theDescription By Neal Bascomb Paperback Neal Bascomb, author of The Nazi Hunters, returns with a thrilling work of narrative nonfiction about a group of Allied POWs who staged an escape for the ages during World War I. Illustrated throughout with incredible photographs and published on the 100th anniversary of the Holzminden escape! At the height of World War I, as battles raged in the trenches and in the air, another struggle for survival was being