Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle [J0208]

2023 - PB Nice clean condition. Colditz Castle: a forbidding Gothic tower on a hill in Nazi Germany. You may have heard about the prisoners and their daring and desperate attempts to escape, but that's only part of the real story. In Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle, bestselling historian Ben Macintyre takes us inside the walls of the most infamous prison in history to meet the real men behind the legends. Heroes and bullies, lovers and spies, captors and prisoners living cheek-by-jowl for years in a thrilling game of cat and mouse - and all determined to escape by any means necessary. Deeply researched and full of incredible stories, this is a tale of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances - and will change how you think about Colditz forever.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Captivating. I locked myself in a cell of solitude with this book and didn't escape until the last page."; "He recounts how the prisoners created a society as imperfect as those they had lived in before the War. And he details the relationship between the prisoners and their German guards. It is a complex story."; "Excellent!! A very engrossing telling of life as a POW in Colditz Castle. Our resilience as humans is amazing."