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digging the great escape

nth_london_addick
nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
in Not Sports Related
On now anyone else watching on channel 4

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  • Bigfatpete
    Bigfatpete Posts: 723
    edited November 2013
    Yep, so impressive what they achieved
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Was a great insight to how hard and how they adapted

    The drive to escape mustve been immense
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    Reading the "Human Game" by Simon Read about the post war search for the nazis who executed the 47 escapees.

    Didn't realise the even while the war was still being fought the British knew about the killings and Anthony Eden (Foriegn Secretary) spoke in Parliament saying we'd hunt down the fascists who did it.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    I thought it was Paul Brickhill (who wrote "The Great Escape") who wrote a follow-up about how the perpetrators of the massacre were tracked down. I could be wrong about the author though.

    I didn't realise it was on, and only caught the last few minutes, but due to all the great new channels then watched it on 4+1. Can't believe how the sand moves so much and that 21st century machinery couldn't do what just a few men could do 70 years ago with their bare hands.

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