Human game : the true story of the 'great escape' murders and the hunt for the Gestapo gunmen
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New York : Berkley Books, [2012].
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xvi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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LC Subjects
Criminal investigation -- Germany.
Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force -- Officers -- Crimes against.
Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force Police. -- Special Investigations Branch.
McKenna, Francis P., -- 1906-1994.
Stalag Luft III.
War crime trials -- Germany.
War criminals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force -- Officers -- Crimes against.
Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force Police. -- Special Investigations Branch.
McKenna, Francis P., -- 1906-1994.
Stalag Luft III.
War crime trials -- Germany.
War criminals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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New York : Berkley Books, [2012].
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Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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In March and April of 1944, Gestapo gunmen killed fifty POWs--a brutal act in defiance of international law and the Geneva Convention. 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 desolate 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 Germany seventeen months after the killings to pick up a trail long gone cold. Amid the chaos of postwar Germany, divided between American, British, French, and Russian occupiers, McKenna and his men brought twenty-one Gestapo killers to justice in a hunt that spanned three years and took them into the darkest realms of Nazi fanaticism. In "Human Game," Simon Read tells this harrowing story as never before. Beginning inside Stalag Luft III and the Nazi High Command, through the grueling three-year manhunt, and into the final close of the case more than two decades later, Read delivers a clear-eyed and meticulously researched account of this often-overlooked saga of hard-won justice.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Read, S. (2012). Human game: the true story of the 'great escape' murders and the hunt for the Gestapo gunmen . Berkley Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Read, Simon, 1974-. 2012. Human Game: The True Story of the 'great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen. Berkley Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Read, Simon, 1974-. Human Game: The True Story of the 'great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen Berkley Books, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Read, Simon. Human Game: The True Story of the 'great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen Berkley Books, 2012.
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