
Escape Artists
In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, captured soldiers and pilots narrowly avoided death only to find themselves imprisoned in Germany''s archipelago of brutal POW camps. After several unsuccessful escapes, a group of Allied prisoners of Holzminden - Germany''s land-locked Alcatraz- hatched the most elaborate escape plan yet known. With ingenious engineering, disguises, for...
In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, captured soldiers and pilots narrowly avoided death only to find themselves imprisoned in Germany''s archipelago of brutal POW camps. After several unsuccessful escapes, a group of Allied prisoners of Holzminden - Germany''s land-locked Alcatraz- hatched the most elaborate escape plan yet known. With ingenious engineering, disguises, for...