Human Game: The True Story of the "Great Escape" Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen

by Simon Read

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425252736
• ISBN13: 9780425252734
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Berkley Caliber
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher