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The diggers of Colditz : the classic Australian POW story about escape from the inescapable / Jack Champ and Colin Burgess.

The diggers of Colditz : the classic Australian POW story about escape from the inescapable / Jack Champ and Colin Burgess.
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ISBN 9781760855178
Author Champ, Jack (author.)
Title The diggers of Colditz : the classic Australian POW story about escape from the inescapable / Jack Champ and Colin Burgess.
Other title Diggers of Colditz : the classic Australian Prisoners Of War story about escape from the inescapable
Edition Revised edition.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Cammeray, NSW : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
©1985.
Description xii, 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans, portraits, 1 map ; 20 cm.
Note First published in Australia in 1985, 1997 by Kangaroo Press.
Includes index.
Summary Colditz Castle was Nazi Germany's infamous 'escape-proof' wartime prison, where hundreds of the most determined and resourceful Allied prisoners were sent. Despite having more guards than inmates, Australian Lieutenant Jack Champ and other prisoners tirelessly carried out their campaign to escape from the massive floodlit stronghold . . . by any means necessary. In this riveting account -- by turns humorous, heartfelt and tragic -- historian Colin Burgess and Lieutenant Jack Champ, from the point of view of the prisoners themselves, tells the story of the twenty Australians who made this castle their 'home', and the plans they made that were so crazy that some even achieved the seemingly impossible: escape!
Subjects Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany)
Warfare & Defence
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
Prisoners of war -- Australia -- Biography
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- History
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Australian
Escapes -- Germany -- Colditz
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Burgess, Colin, 1947- (author)
Call number 2020.179
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A00925970 2020.179
General Collection   . Available to Museum Staff .  
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