02721cam a2200337 4500 468432575 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544936904 0544936906 B07895QNLK Amazon 57a5532b-85c8-4255-a071-2a3e9ecbaa80 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3707279 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bascomb, Neal. The Escape Artists [Libby] : A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 22MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>This "fast-paced account" of WWI airmen who escaped Germany's most notorious POW camp is "expertly narrated" by the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author (<i>Kirkus</i>, starred review).</b><br /> During World War I, Allied soldiers might avoid death only to find themselves in the abominable conditions of Germany's many prison camps. The most infamous was Holzminden, a land-locked Alcatraz that housed the most escape-prone officers. Its commandant was a boorish tyrant named Karl Niemeyer, who swore that none should ever leave.<br /> Desperate to break out of "Hellminden", a group of Allied prisoners hatch an audacious escape plan that requires a risky feat of engineering as well as a bevy of disguises, forged documents, and fake walls—not to mention steely resolve and total secrecy. Once beyond the watchtowers and round-the-clock patrols, they are then faced with a 150-mile dash through enemy-occupied territory toward free Holland.<br /> Drawing on never-before-seen memoirs and letters, historian Neal Bascomb "has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism" (David Grann, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Killers of the Flower Moon</i>).</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=57a5532b-85c8-4255-a071-2a3e9ecbaa80&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=57a5532b-85c8-4255-a071-2a3e9ecbaa80&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=57a5532b-85c8-4255-a071-2a3e9ecbaa80&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)