Description: Human Game: The True Story of the 'Great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen by Simon Read (Author) 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 long after the escape, fifty of the recaptured airmen were taken to killing fields throughout Germany and shot on the direct orders of Hitler. When the nature of these killings came to light, Churchill’s government swore to pursue justice at any cost. A revolving team of military police, led by squadron leader Francis P. McKenna, was dispatched to pick up a trail long gone cold. Amid the chaos of postwar Germany, divided between American, British, French, and Russian occupiers, McKenna led a three-year manhunt that brought twenty-one Gestapo killers to justice. In Human Game, Simon Read delivers a clear-eyed and meticulously researched account of this often overlooked saga of hard-won justice. Publisher : Dutton Caliber; Reprint edition (October 1, 2013)Language : EnglishPaperback : 352 pagesISBN-10 : 0425253708ISBN-13 : 9780425253700
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Book Title: Human Game : the True Story of the 'great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen
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Author: Simon Read
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Europe / Germany, Military / World War II, Military / General, Genocide & War Crimes, Europe / Great Britain / General, Criminology
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: History, Social Science, Political Science
Item Weight: 19.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
