03401cam a2200301 4500 947758291 TxAuBib 20230825120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593629260 0593629264 5d8a59b0-6f95-4022-890f-815c56f63d69 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8721159 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Macintyre, Ben, 1963- Prisoners of the Castle [Libby Audiobook] : An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison. Books on Tape, 2022. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 369MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 369MB. HTML:<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER •&#160;The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodied the spirit of resistance against fascism, from the author of <i>The Spy and the Traitor<br /></i></b><br /> <b>“Macintyre has a knack for finding the most fascinating story lines in history.”—David Grann, author of <i>The Wager</i> and <i>Killers of the Flower Moon</i></b><br /> In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend.<br /> But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyre’s telling, Colditz’s most famous names—like the indomitable Pat Reid—share glory with lesser known but equally remarkable characters like Indian doctor Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, America’s oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture covert escape aids for POWs.<br /> <i>Prisoners of the Castle</i> traces the war’s arc from within Colditz’s stone walls, where the stakes rose as Hitler’s war machine faltered and the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed <i>Operation Mincemeat</i> and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told. True Crime. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-08-24 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5d8a59b0-6f95-4022-890f-815c56f63d69&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5d8a59b0-6f95-4022-890f-815c56f63d69&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)