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NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, a definitive and surprising new narrative of one of history's most famous prisons—and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried to relentlessly escape their Nazi captors.The myth of Colditz, the most infamous prison in history, has stood unchallenged for 70 years: prisoners of war, mustaches firmly set on stiff upper lips, defying the Nazis by tunnelling out of a grim Gothic castle on a German hilltop. Like all legends, that story contains only part of the truth. In Ben Macintyre's brilliant, cliche-smashing new history, he offers a vision of Colditz previously unimagined, a story of much more than an escape, just as the prison's inmates were far more complicated than the cardboard saints depicted in post-war pop culture.Colditz was a miniature replica of office-class society at the time, only far stranger: a lethal, high stakes boarding school...

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Author

Ben Macintyre

Publisher

McClelland & Stewart

Published

2022

Language

EN

Category

true crime

Subjects

True Crime, Crime, Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (2,470 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14