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Wooden Horse : The Classic World War II Story of Escape by Eric Williams (2014, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSkyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-101628736690
ISBN-139781628736694
eBay Product ID (ePID)171600291
Product Key Features
Book TitleWooden Horse : the Classic World War II Story of Escape
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / Military, Military / World War II, Military / General
Publication Year2014
GenreFiction, History
AuthorEric Williams
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal940.547243
SynopsisAn epic adventure--the most brilliant escape and evasion from the Nazis ever written. Eric Williams, a Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, the infamous German POW camp. Digging an underground tunnel hidden beneath a wooden vaulting horse, he managed to escape after ten months and, accompanied by a fellow officer, made his way back to England. In this thinly fictionalized retelling, Williams relates his story in three distinct phases: the construction of a tunnel (its entrance camouflaged by the wooden vaulting horse in the exercise yard) and hiding the large quantities of sand he dug; the escape; and the journey on foot and by train to the port of Stettin, where Williams and his fellow escapee stowed away aboard a Danish ship, the Norensen. From painstakingly digging the tunnel to secretly depositing the dirt and gravel around the camp to dodging searchlights and search dogs and climbing barbed wire fences, this is an escape story hard to beat. For sheer heroism, courage, and perseverance, this classic is arguably the most ingenious POW escape of WWII. The Wooden Horse became a legend among servicemen long before its publication in 1949 and has remained one ever since. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
LC Classification NumberD805.5
