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Colditz : prisoners of the castle / Ben MacIntyre.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
LP-NF MACI	Large Print		Bankstown .	. Available .

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ISBN	9781444850703
Name	MacIntyre, Ben, 1963- author
Title	Colditz : prisoners of the castle / Ben MacIntyre.
Edition	Large print edition.
Published	Leicester : Ulverscroft, Charnwood, 2023.
Description	438 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Summary	In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their Nazi captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth. The astonishing inside story, revealed for the first time by bestselling historian Ben Macintyre, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of snobbery, class conflict, homosexuality, bullying, espionage, boredom, insanity and farce. With access to an astonishing range of material, Macintyre reveals a remarkable cast of characters hitherto hidden from history, with captors and prisoners living for years cheek-by-jowl in a thrilling game of cat and mouse. Deeply researched and full of incredible human stories, this is the definitive book on Colditz.
Target audience note	Adult.
Subjects	Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany)
Subjects	World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
Genre	Large type books
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Large type books . Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany) . World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German . Authors: MacIntyre, Ben, 1963- .