They had good reason to believe that the man before them, Lieutenant Walter Purdy, was a spy sent into Colditz by the Germans to betray his countrymen. His Colditz is a self-proclaimed revisionist exercise, which sets out to re-examine a “myth” which “has stood unchallenged for more than 70 years” of “prisoners of war, with moustaches firmly on stiff upper lips, defying the Nazis by tunnelling out of a grim Gothic castle”. It also invites the reader to ask themselves: “what would you have done?” BBC fans are in for a treat this Christmas as the broadcaster announces the return of THIS hit music show Thousands of Albanians descend on streets of Central London to 'celebrate independence day' with police...

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British inmates had spent the winter months digging the most ambitious and technically advanced tunnel undertaken at Colditz. Now they were within touching distance of the boundary wall. Brown had heard this name before. Soon after Julius Green had arrived at Blechhammer, he’d told Brown about his time at Marlag, and a naval engineer called Purdy who was extremely pro-German. Now, Brown knew that Purdy, who had obviously promoted himself, was no longer just a PoW. Hollywood plastic surgeon reveals the celebs who he thinks have had wonky surgery secretly corrected