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Summary: Reading The Great Escape gives us heroes
Review: Brickhill's book is a fascinating story and extremely well written. It is more visual in its writing than the movie ever was. The story is fascinating and the roles played by men of all types reaffirms the capability for heroes within all of us. As a younger man I read every book I could find about WWII POWs. This included both American and English publishers, and covered both the European and Pacific theatres of war. The Great Escape does a better job in taking us there and making us part of the action than anything else written. I would also suggest adding the title "King Rat" by James Clavell to your links for books of this type.
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Summary: The Great Escape: By: Jack Miller
Review: Hello, my name is Jack Miller, and in reading The Great Escape, I really began to understand how terrible the war really was. I could not imagine being held hostage, let alone having the courage to escape. The escape the men in The Great Escape took great courage, strength, and strategy. They all worked together, selflessly, knowing that their lives were on the line. I enjoyed reading The Great Escape very much, because of way Paul Brickhill explained and described the tension and the situations going on. Although the book's ending was not a very happy one, it would have been very hard to make it have that much of a twist. I liked the ending and i don't think it could have been done any other way.
The Great Escape is a very inspiring book, it is a story of hope and courage, and it showed me that if you work hard at something, you can accomplish it.
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Summary: The Great Escape: By: Jack Miller
Review: Hello, my name is Jack Miller, and in reading The Great Escape, I really began to understand how terrible the war really was. I could not imagine being held hostage, let alone having the courage to escape. The escape the men in The Great Escape took great courage, strength, and strategy. They all worked together, selflessly, knowing that their lives were on the line. I enjoyed reading The Great Escape very much, because of way Paul Brickhill explained and described the tension and the situations going on. Although the book's ending was not a very happy one, it would have been very hard to make it have that much of a twist. I liked the ending and i don't think it could have been done any other way.
The Great Escape is a very inspiring book, it is a story of hope and courage, and it showed me that if you work hard at something, you can accomplish it.
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Summary: Top Class
Review: I bought this book in a jumble sale 21 years ago, and found it really gripping. Two decades on, I'm thinking of rereading it, one of the all time classics that inspired a classic film. Try "Dam Busters" too.
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Summary: Thrilling Yet Sad
Review: I first read the book when I was 13 in 1968. The creativity of the prisoners was a thrill to read.Sad that 50 of them were murdered by the Germans.
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Summary: A tale of incredible courage and resourcefulness.
Review: I first read this book as a girl and have read it 20-odd times since. I despise the movie of the same name. This is the true, fascinating story of how an incredibly resourceful group of POW's was able to plan and execute a mass escape from a NAZI prison-camp. Every school-child should have to read this book, to learn what we all are capable of if we set goals and persevere. The detective story in the epilogue is fascinating reading as well. It would make a great full-length story on its own.
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Summary: Found it again
Review: I first read this book when I was 11 years old and recently decided I wanted to read it again. Not an easy book to find anywhere, I finally found it at Amazon. This is an amazing tale about the courage, determination and resourcefullness of Allied POWs in WWII Europe. You won't be able to put this one down. If you are not claustrophobic you probably will be after this read. If you are alredy claustrophobic -- good luck.
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Summary: ESCAPE BACK IN TIME
Review: I found this book to be really good. I really liked the ingenuity that these POW's used in their attempts to escape. The book describes the problems that the escapees were faced with as they planned an escape and how these problems were eventually solved. The way the book details some of the German guards was interesting also because some guards were helpful in making the great escape possible. The book that I read was the paperback version and had many drawings that give you an idea of what the camp and tunnels looked like. I did run into the hardback copy later and found that it contained actual photos from the prison camp and had actual pictures of the tunnels and of some of the participants both German and Allied. I give this book a thumbs up for anyone looking for a book that offers a different look of WWII, one from inside a German POW camp.
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Summary: great human interest story
Review: I have always believed that truth is more interesting than fiction (most of the time, anyways!} and this story is THE best testimonial to that belief. Even if one has little, if any, interest in military affairs, it must be admitted that this story does capture the imagination and certainly must rank as one of the great human interest stories of all time. The combination of a seemingly hopeless situation ( a POW camp ), the meager supplies and materials to work with ( i.e. carving an official stamp out of a boot heel! ) and Mr. Brickhill's descriptions that give one the feeling of actually being there, create a story that no true thinking man ( or person ) can deny as even more fascinating than the movie. I plan to purchase the hardcover and audio versions to keep as a family literary treasue for generations to come.
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Summary: Freedom cannot be taken for granted- it must be defended and
Review: I have an original paperback of this book from 1956. I read it for the first time in 1975 for the first time after seeing the movie on t.v. have since read it a dozen times and now my 11 year son has also read it. It is a story of true courage and heroism that most people in the world seem to have forgotten about. A great life's lesson is to be learned in this tale.
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