![]() ![]() ![]() DO NOT HESITATE - it would make for outstanding entertainment during a long drive or a quiet night shift. If - as I did - you can get it as a 'Plus' selection. and is equally easy to consume with earbuds or on the speakers of a device/car. ![]() Whitfield's narration is by no means perfect (too slow, for example), but quite a bit above-average (with spot-on professional diction, timbre, cadence, and tone). do an excellent job providing technical support to reader Robert Whitfield - a great choice to bring this Classic exposé to life. The plans & execution of this daring endeavor are nail-bitingly intriguing. while simultaneously dodging German efforts to uncover the plot and conducting psy-ops ("fakeouts") to distract them (dummy tunnels, for example). ![]() The incredible conviction that the prisoners have both a desire and a "duty" to escape comes through nicely - as does the thought-provoking challenge of figuring out the mechanics of conducting a mass escape with a reasonable chance of success (76 men made it - 73 recaptured). The story is all-encompassing, described vividly, and made "real" with depictions of eccentric Allied officers, select "penguins"/"stooges"/"diggers"/"forgers"/etc., and German "goons"/"ferrets". This jawdropping chronicle of the efforts of Allied POWs (downed Airmen in this case) to escape from the Germans is well-written by Australian pilot Paul Brickhill - who participated but didn't get through the tunnel. ![]()
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