22+ The Last Escape: The Untold Story Of Allied Prisoners Of War In Europe 1944-45 Pictures. In the last escape, gulf war pow and author john nichol and popular historian tony rennell relate the astonishing story of these unrecognized heroes. Some of the worst experiences were those of british army and royal air force (raf) flight crews who had been prisoners since 1939 and 1940.

They cleverly weave wwii policy decisions dealing with pows with firsthand accounts of pows inside prison camps in europe and during the forced evacuation marches many endured during the last months of the war. The notorious stalag luft iii was a specially built prison camp on germany's border with poland. In 1942, the first of over 1.5 million american servicemen arrived on british shores in preparation for the allied offensives against germany during the second world war.

An incident known as 'the great escape' which make fascinating reading.

Its inmates and their exploits were extraordinary, but its liberation, in april 1945, was. One of the last survivors of world war two's most famous prison break, known march 24th 1944: A documentary about the 1944 mass escape from the german prisoner of war camp stalag luft iii for british and commonwealth airmen that eventually was dramatized by the famous film the great escape. The notorious stalag luft iii was a specially built prison camp on germany's border with poland.