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Carroll, Tim.
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Dodge, Johnny, 1894-1960.
Stalag Luft III.
Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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Carroll, Tim.
Dodge, Johnny, 1894-1960.
Stalag Luft III.
Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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The dodger : the extraordinary story of Churchill's American cousin, two world wars, and the great escape / Tim Carroll.
by
Carroll, Tim.
Lyons Press, c2013.
Call #:
940.547 C319d
Subjects
Dodge
, Johnny,
1894-1960
.
Stalag Luft III.
Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
ISBN:
9780762787760 (hc.)
0762787767 (hc.)
Description:
xviii, 318 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309) and index.
Summary:
"The Dodger is the story of
John
Bigelow
"Johnny"
Dodge
, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape. The American-born and well-connected
Dodge
was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill and friends with the rich and famous of both countries, including Kermit Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's son. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the "Great Escape." Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitler's interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnny's adventurous life"--Publisher.
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