Escape Artists
Escape Artists "Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The most infamous was Holzminden, a land-locked Alcatraz that housed the most troublesome,…
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Escape Artists
"Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The most infamous was Holzminden, a land-locked Alcatraz that housed the most troublesome, escape-prone officers. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism." --David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower MoonNeal Bascomb, New York Times best-selling author, delivers the spellbinding story of the downed Allied airmen who masterminded the remarkably courageous--and ingenious--breakout from Germany's most devilish POW camp.In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, soldiers and pilots might avoid death, only to find themselves imprisoned in Germany's archipelago of prison camps, often in abominable conditions.
Its commandant was a boorish, hate-filled tyrant named Karl Niemeyer who swore that none