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"The spellbinding story of the downed Allied airmen who masterminded the remarkably courageous--and ingenious--breakout from Germany's most devilish POW camp. In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, soldiers and pilots might avoid death only to find themselves imprisoned in Germany's archipelago of prison camps, often in abominable conditions. The most infamous was Holzminden, a landlocked Alcatraz that housed the most troublesome,...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph over Hitler's
fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing.
They were the unlikeliest of heroes. René Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international race car circuit,
had been banned from the best teams—and fastest cars—by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage. Charles
Weiffenbach, head of the down-on-its-luck automaker Delahaye,...
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