{"product_id":"prisoners-of-the-castle-an-epic-story-of-survival-and-escape-from-colditz-the-nazis-fortress-prison-paperback","title":"Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen MacIntyre\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - The \"entertaining yet objective and often-moving account\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) of one of history's most notorious prisons--and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried relentlessly to escape their captors, from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Spy and the Traitor\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Macintyre so seamlessly fuses so many different accounts that their compilation creates something more profound than a simple escape yarn.\"―\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyre's telling, Colditz's most famous names--like the indomitable Pat Reid--share glory with lesser known but equally remarkable characters like Indian doctor Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture covert escape aids for POWs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrisoners of the Castle\u003c\/i\u003e traces the war's arc from within Colditz's stone walls, where the stakes rose as Hitler's war machine faltered and the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed \u003ci\u003eOperation Mincemeat\u003c\/i\u003e and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Macintyre\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer-at-large for \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (U.K.) and the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAgent Sonya, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRogue Heroes, \u003c\/i\u003e among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 9.13 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Print:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697660497983,"sku":"9780593632079","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d7e5c744ba0f9c3eeeec4217a0edf392.webp?v=1765009513","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/prisoners-of-the-castle-an-epic-story-of-survival-and-escape-from-colditz-the-nazis-fortress-prison-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}