The Colditz Story by Reid, Pat R

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Cassell Military Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card, colour illustrated covers. No bumps or rubs. Minor shelf wear to edges. No creases to spine or hinge. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. AS NEW* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 223 pp. text.* Product Description:- Colditz was the last stop for prisoners of war in the Second World War. It was to this impregnable fortress that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in escaping from other camps, such as Stalag Luft III (of THE GREAT ESCAPE FAME). Once within the walls of Colditz, the Germans reasoned, escape was impossible. And yet during the four-year period when the castle was used as a prison over 300 men escaped, 31 of whom managed to complete the hazardous journey home through Germany.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with some shelf wear reducing it to VG+*