Bram Vanderstok

Gebundenes Buch

Escape from Stalag Luft III

The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstok

Beschreibung

This is the memoirs of Bram Vanderstok, number 18 of 76 men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III. The 1963 film The Great Escape, made this breakout the most famous of the Second World War: this is the true story of one of only three successful escapees.

Autor

Bram (Bob) Vanderstok, MBE, was born on 13th October 1915 in Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies. he was a world war ii fighter pilot and still holds the record as the most decorated aviator in Dutch history. after the war he studied and practiced medicine as well as working with the us coast guard auxiliary, participating in 162 rescues. he died in February 1993. Simon Pearson is _The Times_ newspaper obituaries editor and author of TThe Great Escaper: The Life and Death of Roger Bushell 'the mastermind behind the great escape'_ (Hodder).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenhill Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9781784384340
• ISBN-10: 1784384348
• Artikelnr.: 53605822