Human Game Hunting The Great Escape Murderers

Author : Simon Read
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425253708
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Game written by Simon Read and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March and April of 1944, Gestapo gunmen killed fifty POWs—a brutal act in defiance of international law and the Geneva Conventions. This is the true story of the men who hunted them down. The mass breakout of seventy-six Allied airmen from the infamous Stalag Luft III became one of the greatest tales of World War II, immortalized in the film The Great Escape. But where Hollywood’s depiction fades to black, another incredible story begins . . . Not long after the escape, fifty of the recaptured airmen were taken to killing fields throughout Germany and shot on the direct orders of Hitler. When the nature of these killings came to light, Churchill’s government swore to pursue justice at any cost. A revolving team of military police, led by squadron leader Francis P. McKenna, was dispatched to pick up a trail long gone cold. Amid the chaos of postwar Germany, divided between American, British, French, and Russian occupiers, McKenna led a three-year manhunt that brought twenty-one Gestapo killers to justice. In Human Game, Simon Read delivers a clear-eyed and meticulously researched account of this often overlooked saga of hard-won justice. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Author : Simon Read
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781472112620
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Game written by Simon Read and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 2014 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Europe.

Author : Richard Connell
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8728187490
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Most Dangerous Game written by Richard Connell and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanger Rainsford is a big-game hunter, who finds himself washed up on an island owned by the eccentric General Zaroff. Zaroff, a big-game hunter himself, has heard of Rainsford’s abilities with a gun and organises a hunt. However, they’re not after animals – they’re after people. When he protests, Rainsford the hunter becomes Rainsford the hunted. Sharing similarities with "The Hunger Games", starring Jennifer Lawrence, this is the story that created the template for pitting man against man. Born in New York, Richard Connell (1893 – 1949) went on to become an acclaimed author, screenwriter, and journalist. He is best remembered for the gripping novel "The Most Dangerous Game" and for receiving an Oscar nomination for the screenplay "Meet John Doe".

Author : Simon Read
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780330219
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Game: Hunting the Great Escape Murderers written by Simon Read and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1944, 76 Allied officers tunnelled out of Stalag Luft III. Of the 73 captured, 50 were shot by direct order of Hitler. This is the story of how a British Bobby from Blackpool, Frank McKenna, was sent to post-war Germany on the express orders from Churchill to bring the Gestapo murderers to justice. In a quest that ranges from the devastated, bombed out cities of Europe to the horrors of the concentrations camps, McKenna is relentless in his pursuit. A gripping read set in the aftermath of World War II.

Author : Tor Idar Larsen
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosquito Attack! written by Tor Idar Larsen and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben James
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750968559
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sussex War Heroes written by Ben James and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation of ordinary young men and women were thrust into the most extraordinary of situations when the Second World War was declared. Sussex is full of war heroes, but soon they will be gone – along with their stories. This is not a book about Victoria Cross winners or the celebrities of days gone by, but the untold accounts of everyday heroes who 'did their bit'. It is about former train engineer Bob Morrell, who was beaten, starved and tortured in the brutal Japanese prisoner camps. It is about ex-pub landlord John Akehurst, who gave the Germans the run-around Northern Europe after being shot down. And it is about Shindy Perez and her remarkable escape from the gas chambers of Auschwitz. As this important period passes from living memory into history, this is likely to be the last time that these personal tales are told, tales which should never be forgotten.

Author : Louise Williams
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445654059
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Escaper written by Louise Williams and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He survived the air war and broke out of Germany’s toughest POW camp. Now his fate lies in Hitler’s hands.

Author : Jennie Mack Gray
Publisher : Perardua Books
ISBN 13 : 1999331788
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathfinder Aircrew written by Jennie Mack Gray and published by Perardua Books. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the RAF Pathfinders in the Second World War? Who led them? What gave them the courage to carry on despite flak, night-fighters, and the many other hazards of air warfare? The Path Finder Force was RAF Bomber Command's only official elite Force, and it played a vital part in the Command's campaigns against Nazi Germany. This detailed and sympathetic account, based on 25 years' research, vividly describes what sort of people the Pathfinders were, what sustained them during their highly dangerous operations, and how their comrades, friends and families dealt with the all-too frequent losses - at sea, in Occupied Europe, in Germany, or in terrible accidents on British soil. Most of the personal documents used in Pathfinder Aircrew have never been published before. Based almost entirely on wartime or immediate post-war records, including aircrew letters and diaries, this book tells a very human story of members of an elite which was a byword for perseverance, technical excellence, and the most magnificent bravery.

Author : Simon Read
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750991577
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark City written by Simon Read and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blackout went into effect three days before the declaration of war and transformed nocturnal London into a criminal's paradise. As the city pulled together in the face of terrible adversity, the bomb-ravaged streets became the stalking grounds for killers, rapists, looters and gangs. The number of bodies retrieved during the Blitz made it impossible for the authorities to autopsy them all, providing cover to those who worked with blades, guns and more sinister tools. Scotland Yard – its resources stretched to the limit – did its best to tackle a rogues' gallery born of bombs and blackout, and crimes that continue to fascinate from history's darkest corners. In Dark City, award-winning crime writer Simon Read paints a vivid picture of the other side of wartime London, from the Blackout Ripper and the Acid Bath Murders, to the notorious Rillington Place killer and his house of corpses.

Author : Paul Brickhill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393325799
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Escape written by Paul Brickhill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1950 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records the efforts of six hundred British and American officers to escape from a Nazi prison camp.