True Escape Stories
Author: Paul Dowswell
Publisher: Usborne
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781580866804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a collection of true stories of men who risked their lives for their freedom.
Author: Paul Dowswell
Publisher: Usborne
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781580866804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a collection of true stories of men who risked their lives for their freedom.
Author: Paul Dowswell
Publisher: Usborne Books
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780794500870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →LOCKED DOORS, HIGH PRISON WALLS AND BARBED WIRE ARE FORMIDABLE ENOUGH OBSTACLES, BUT MANY ESCAPING PRISONERS ALSO FACE SAVAGE DOGS AND ARMED GUARDS WHO SHOOT TO KILL. FROM ALCATRAZ TO DEVIL'S ISLAND, TRUE ESCAPE STORIES TELLS THE EXTRAORDINARY TALES OF MEN WHO RISKED THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR FREEDOM.
Author: Laura Scandiffio
Publisher: Annick Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781550378221
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →10 escape stories from around the world.
Author: Paul Dowswell
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780746058428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This compilation includes 30 true stories of heroism, desperation, courage and daring; from the first exploration of Everest to the story of the real Indiana Jones.
Author: Darren Brown
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1461748755
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To reach freedom, the most famous escapers of all time have been willing to endure the most horrific conditions—and the direst consequences if caught. The collection of tales in The Greatest Escape Stories Ever Told is gripping as only true life-and-death struggles can be: Papillon fighting through the jungles of Guiana only to commit himself to the open ocean in a sixteen-foot boat rather than face a life in exile; Rocky Gause dodging bullets as he swims through shark-infested waters to escape the Japanese at Bataan, while those around him simply quit; Latude battling against the dreaded Bastille; Baron Trenck—with chains covering almost every inch of his body—digging and digging to free himself from wrongful imprisonment; Andre Devigny, so weak from starvation and poor treatment that he could barely lift himself, shimmying across a rope only yards above a German sentry during World War II on the eve of his execution. These are just a few of the twenty-five bold and ingenious tales of escape included in this collection. The Greatest Escape Stories Ever Told will hold readers captive for years to come!
Author: Alfréd Wetzler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 184545183X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Alfred Wetzler was a true hero. His escape from Auschwitz, and the report he helped compile, telling for the first time the truth about the camp as a place of mass murder, led directly to saving the lives of 120,000 Jews: the Jews of Budapest who were about to be deported to their deaths. No other single act in the Second World War saved so many Jews from the fate that Hitler and the SS had determined for them. This book tells Wetzler's story." - Sir Martin Gilbert "Wetzler is a master at evoking the universe of Auschwitz, and especially, his and Vrba's harrowing flight to Slovakia. The day-by-day account of the tremendous difficulties the pair faced after the Nazis had called off their search of the camp and its surroundings is both riveting and heart wrenching. ...] Shining vibrantly through the pages of the memoir are the tenacity and valor of two young men, who sought to inform the world about the greatest outrage ever committed by humans against their fellow humans." - From Introduction by Dr Robert Rozett] Together with another young Slovak Jew, both of them deported in 1942, the author succeeded in escaping from the notorious death camp in the spring of 1944. There were some very few successful escapes from Auschwitz during the war, but it was these two who smuggled out the damning evidence - a ground plan of the camp, constructional details of the gas chambers and crematoriums and, most convincingly, a label from a canister of Cyclone gas. The present book is cast in the form of a novel to allow factual information not personally collected by the two fugitives, but provided for them by a handful of reliable friends, to be included. Nothing, however, has been invented. It is a shocking account of Nazi genocide and of the inhuman conditions in the camp, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief the fugitive's revelations met with after their return. Ewald Osers has translated over 150 books and received many translation prizes and honours.
Author: Paul Dowswell
Publisher:
Published: 2004-04-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781417632640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collects eight stories of escapes from jail, prison, and military prison from around the world, most from the Second World War.
Author: Joel C. Rosenberg
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1414336241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Joel C. Rosenberg delivers a spellbinding novel about one of the darkest times in human history.
Author: Paul Dowswell
Publisher: Usborne Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780794519827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of thrilling adventure stories, based on actual life events, this book is ideal for reluctant readers.
Author: Helena Merriman
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2021-08-24
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1541788826
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →He escaped from one of the world’s most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rudolph dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin were dozens of men, women, and children—all willing to risk everything to escape. From the award-winning creator of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 podcast, Tunnel 29 is the true story of this most remarkable Cold War rescue mission. Drawing on interviews with the survivors and Stasi files, Helena Merriman brilliantly reveals the stranger-than-fiction story of the ingenious group of student-diggers, the glamorous red-haired messenger, the Stasi spy who threatened the whole enterprise, and the love story that became its surprising epilogue. Tunnel 29 was also the first made-for-TV event of its kind; it was funded by NBC, who wanted to film an escape in real time. Their documentary—which was nearly blocked from airing by the Kennedy administration, which wanted to control the media during the Cold War—revolutionized TV journalism. Ultimately, Tunnel 29 is a success story about freedom: the valiant citizens risking everything to win it back, and the larger world rooting for them to triumph.