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In the custom of Paul Brickhill's best-selling The Great Escape, comes the amazing true account of the very most successful mass Allied get away from of World Battle II from Schubin, Poland. The story starts in the stinking latrines of the Schubin camp as an North american and a Canadian lead the digging of an tunnel which enabled a break including 36 prisoners of conflict (POWs). The Germans then changed the camp to Oflag 64, to exclusively hold US Army officers, with more than 1500 People in america in the end housed there. Plucky People in america attempted a variety of escapes until January 1945, and then be thwarted each time. Then, with the Red Army advancing deeper every day, camp commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider received requests from Berlin to march his prisoners west. Game on! Over the next couple of days, 250 US Army officers would succeed in escaping east to link up with the Russians - although they would confirm almost as dangerous as the Nazis - and then be ordered after they arrived back in america not to discuss their journeys. Within months, Basic Patton would unveiling a bloody bid to rescue the rest of the Schubin Americans. In The Big Respite, this previously untold story uses POWs including Basic Eisenhower's personal aide, Basic Patton's son-in-law, and Ernest Hemingway's eldest kid as they struggled to be free. Armed forces historian and Paul Brickhill biographer Stephen Dando-Collins expertly chronicles this gripping account of Americans established to be free, brave Poles risking their lives to help them, and dogmatic Nazis established to stop them.
