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The Dodger is the long-awaited account of Johnny Dodge, a wartime hero, the American-born cousin of Winston Churchill and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the famous Hollywood film The Great Break free. Of all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann Göring's 'get away from evidence' camp in the famous bout of March 1944, Johnny Dodge was the most interesting. When the Second World Conflict broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured following the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of warfare and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the 'Great Break free'. Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen attentiveness camp on the requests of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitler's interpreter, who directed him over a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Block. His odyssey through the dying embers of the 3rd Reich to Switzerland and independence in the company of a louche Nazi apparatchik is the previous curious escapade in the storyline of Johnny's adventurous life. The Dodger pulls upon Dodge's voluminous private documents, including photographs considered inside prison camps and letters home, casting revealing new light on the myth of the fantastic Break free. Tim Carroll is a nationwide magazine journalist and television producer. He's the writer of The Great Escapers: The Full Story of the Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass Break free and was co-author of In Hitler's Bunker: A Youngster Soldier's Eyewitness Consideration of the Führer's Last Days. He's committed with two children and lives in London.
