The Dodger - 9780762787760
Un libro in lingua di Tim Carroll edito da Globe Pequot Pr, 2013
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"The Dodger is the story of John Bigelow "Johnny" Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape. The American-born and well-connected Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill and friends with the rich and famous of both countries, including Kermit Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's son. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the "Great Escape." Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders ofHeinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitler's interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers ofthe Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnny's adventurous life"--
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Dodger
- Sottotitolo: The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's American Cousin, Two World Wars, and the Great Escape
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Tim Carroll
- Editore: Globe Pequot Pr
- Collana: Globe Pequot Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 07 Maggio '13
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Prisoners of war Germany Biography Prisoners of war Great Britain Biography Prisoner-of-war escapes Germany
- Pagine: 318
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 0
- EAN-13: 9780762787760