Storm Ciaran latest: Live updates as UK braces for flooding and strong winds with red weather warning issued and Londoners urged to 'not take risks' The only faint criticism I have of this book is that it is, by nature, rather episodic. It does focus on a few of the prisoners, but there are many who come and go - whether by escape, transfer to another POW camp, or death. Still, I had no trouble following the cast of characters and events outside the castle's walls. It certainly made interesting reading after having seen the movie "The Great Escape" any number of times. No motorcycle stunts in this book (or at Stalag Luft III, for that matter), but fascinating nonetheless.

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I don't know if non-fiction thriller is a legitimate genre but if it is, Ben MacIntyre would be the Stephen King of it. In this book MacIntyre takes on the iconic nazi-castle of Colditz, where high ranking Allied prisoners or prisoners that tried repeatedly to escape, were guarded by the Wehrmacht, which mostly abided by the rules of the Geneva Conventions. In one instance, after succesfully escaping to France, the Germans dutifully sent his suitcase after him. This was utterly fascinating, not only the escape attempts of the prisoners, but also the politics within the prison, the relationships with the guards, the people on the outside who collaborated to smuggle escape equipment into the prison...... Alec Baldwin has 'had enough' of acting and is pitching a REALITY TV SHOW with his family - as he faces possibility of involuntary manslaughter charges

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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. Kim Kardashian shows off son Saint's 'Zombie Neymar Jr' costume while also unveiling his NEW buzzed hair in latest Halloween photos A French cavalry officer escaped by vaulting himself over a four-metre barbed wire fence using only the cupped hands of a fellow officer to spring off. So they set up a bureaucratic system, a type of committee where each nation provided a senior escape officer to liaise with the others.

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