Word: colditz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COLDITZ STORY (288 pp.) -P R. Reid-Lippincott...
...Colditz Story, Author Patrick Reid tells how he and some of his fellow captives raised the risky business of escape to something close to an art. As a narrator, Reid achieves a blend of humor and clean storytelling that makes this just about the best of the many escape books of World...
...Germans had a place for prisoners who wouldn't stay put, and there they sent Reid. The castle at Colditz, in Saxony, was considered escape-proof, and it certainly looked it. "Almost upon leaving the station, we saw looming above us our future prison: beautiful, serene, majestic, and yet forbidding enough to make our hearts sink into our boots." Although most of Germany was blacked out against Allied air attacks, powerful searchlights shone on every inch of Colditz all night...