Prisoners of the Castle An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
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Ben Macintyre
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- 01 augustus 2023
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Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre is columnist en redacteur voor The Times. Ook was hij correspondent voor deze krant in New York, Parijs en Washington. Hij schreef onder andere het boek Agent Zigzag, dat genomineerd was voor de Costa Biography Award en de Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year. Andere boeken van zijn hand zijn SAS: helden en schurken, De spion en de verrader en Agent Sonya. Macintyre woont in Londen met zijn vrouw en drie kinderen.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The entertaining yet objective and often-moving account (The Wall Street Journal) of one of historys most notorious prisonsand the remarkable cast of POWs who tried relentlessly to escape their captors, from the author of The Spy and the Traitor
Macintyre so seamlessly fuses so many different accounts that their compilation creates something more profound than a simple escape yarn.?The Washington Post
In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend.
But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyres telling, Colditzs most famous nameslike the indomitable Pat Reidshare glory with lesser known but equally remarkable characters like Indian doctor Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, Americas oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture covert escape aids for POWs.
Prisoners of the Castle traces the wars arc from within Colditzs stone walls, where the stakes rose as Hitlers war machine faltered and the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told.
Macintyre so seamlessly fuses so many different accounts that their compilation creates something more profound than a simple escape yarn.?The Washington Post
In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend.
But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyres telling, Colditzs most famous nameslike the indomitable Pat Reidshare glory with lesser known but equally remarkable characters like Indian doctor Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, Americas oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture covert escape aids for POWs.
Prisoners of the Castle traces the wars arc from within Colditzs stone walls, where the stakes rose as Hitlers war machine faltered and the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told.
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