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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Churches, Neil.     Subjects     Laws, Les.     Lindsay, Franklin.     Churches, Ralph, 1917-2014.     Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.     Escaped prisoners of war -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.     Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Slovenia -- Maribor -- History -- 20th century.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian.     Maribor (Slovenia) -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Churches, Neil.       by title:      The greatest escape ...       by call number:      940.547243 C562g     Search the Web     Churches, Neil.     Laws, Les.     Lindsay, Franklin.     Churches, Ralph, 1917-2014.     Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.     Escaped prisoners of war -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.     Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Slovenia -- Maribor -- History -- 20th century.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian.     Maribor (Slovenia) -- History.       MARC Display

The greatest escape / Neil Churches ; with Edmund Goldrick. by Churches, Neil. Macmillan, 2022. Call #: 940.547243 C562g Subjects Laws, Les.   Lindsay, Franklin.   Churches, Ralph, 1917-2014.   Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.   Escaped prisoners of war -- Biography.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.   Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Slovenia -- Maribor -- History -- 20th century.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian.   Maribor (Slovenia) -- History. ISBN:  9781529060331 (hc.) Description:  xi, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "aIn August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place: 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in present-day Slovenia. The escape was organized not by officers, but by two ordinary soldiers: Australian Ralph Churches (a bank clerk before the war) and Londoner Les Laws (a jazz pianist by profession), with the help of intelligence officer Franklin Lindsay. The American was on a mission to work with the partisans who moved like ghosts through the Alps, ambushing and evading Nazi forces. How these three men came together along with the partisans to plan and execute the escape is told here for the first time. The Greatest Escape, written by Ralph Churches son Neil, takes us from Ralph and Less capture in Greece in 1941 and their brutal journey to Maribor, with many POWs dying along the way, to the horror of seeing Russian prisoners starved to death in the camp. The book uncovers the hidden story of Allied intelligence operations in Slovenia, and shows how Ralph became involved. We follow the escapees on a nail-biting 160-mile journey across the Alps, pursued by German soldiers, ambushed and betrayed. And yet, of the 106 men who escaped, 100 made it to safety." Other authors:  Goldrick, Edmund. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 940.547243 C562g Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.547243 C562g Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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