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In this entertaining and informative encyclopedia, disguises, ruses, stratagems, capers, devices, rescues, and plots abound. Topics range from a pâpiér-mache POW substitute and Bonnie Prince Charlie's successful 1746 masquerade as a maid to a British airman's short-lived escape from a German hospital wearing a nurse's cap and cape—and enormous flying boots and a luxuriant mustache. Each story is a tribute to ingenuity, perseverance, courage, and indomitable will. The A–Z entries, many of them illustrated, suggest sources for pursuing each subject further.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781576070321 |
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| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publication date: | 08/01/1999 |
| Edition description: | ILLUSTRATE |
| Pages: | 280 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.69(d) |
| Age Range: | 14 - 17 Years |
About the Author
Roger Howard is a professional writer.
Table of Contents
| List of Entries by Category | vii | |
| Preface | xi | |
| Introduction | xiii | |
| Acre Castle | 1 | |
| Afghanistan: The flight of the Russian air crew | 2 | |
| Air, escape by | 3 | |
| Alcatraz | 4 | |
| Algeria | 7 | |
| Al-Ould | 7 | |
| Amethyst | 9 | |
| Andersonville | 10 | |
| Apollo 13 | 11 | |
| Arnhem | 13 | |
| Asrar al-Qabandi | 14 | |
| Attica Prison | 15 | |
| Auschwitz | 15 | |
| Aylward, Gladys | 17 | |
| Bailey, Lt. Col. Frederick | 19 | |
| Bangkok Airport | 20 | |
| Barney, Joshua | 21 | |
| The Bastille | 21 | |
| Belbenoit, Rene | 22 | |
| Ben Bella, Ahmed | 23 | |
| Beniowski, Count Maurice | 24 | |
| Berlin, Battle for | 25 | |
| Berlin Blockade | 26 | |
| Berlin Wall | 27 | |
| Biggs, Ronald | 30 | |
| Bitche Fortress | 30 | |
| Blake, George | 31 | |
| Blount, Father Henry | 33 | |
| Bonney, William H. | 34 | |
| Boston Massacre | 35 | |
| Bounty | 36 | |
| Bray, John | 37 | |
| Brixton Prison | 37 | |
| Broad, Lt. Col. Richard | 38 | |
| Brooklyn Heights | 39 | |
| Brown, Henry | 39 | |
| Buckley, Everett | 40 | |
| Burns, Robert Eliot | 40 | |
| Cabanatuan | 43 | |
| Cambridge Spy Ring | 43 | |
| Camp Morton | 45 | |
| Casanova, Jacques | 45 | |
| Catholic church, rescue by | 46 | |
| Cavell, Edith | 47 | |
| Cebekhulu, Katiza | 49 | |
| Chandos, Sydney, earl of Cardigan | 50 | |
| Charles Edward Stuart | 51 | |
| Charles Stuart | 52 | |
| Chavasse, Noel | 54 | |
| Chitral | 55 | |
| Chrastny, Nikolaus | 57 | |
| Churchill, Sir Winston L. S. | 57 | |
| Cody, William F. | 59 | |
| Colditz | 61 | |
| Collet, Charles | 62 | |
| Columbia Prison | 63 | |
| Conley, Capt. Edward | 64 | |
| "Cooper, D. B." | 64 | |
| Corregidor | 65 | |
| Cortes, Hernan | 65 | |
| Crumlin Road Prison | 66 | |
| Cuba, escape from | 66 | |
| Curion, Coelius Secundus | 67 | |
| Curragh | 67 | |
| Dalai Lama XIV of Tibet | 69 | |
| Davao Penal Colony, Mindanao | 69 | |
| De Gaulle, Charles | 70 | |
| De Marenches, Alexandre | 70 | |
| De Valera, Eamonn | 70 | |
| Deane-Drummond, Anthony | 72 | |
| Dengler, Lt. Dieter | 72 | |
| Dikko, Umaru | 73 | |
| Dith Pran | 73 | |
| Dodge, John | 75 | |
| Dunkirk | 77 | |
| Dutch train rescue | 78 | |
| Egyptian embassy | 81 | |
| Entebbe | 81 | |
| Escape attempts | 83 | |
| Execution, escape from | 85 | |
| Fanning, David | 89 | |
| Foley, Frank | 89 | |
| Forgery and impersonation | 90 | |
| Franco-Prussian War | 92 | |
| French Guiana | 92 | |
| Fugitive Slave Laws | 93 | |
| Gambetta, Leon | 95 | |
| Gambian rescue | 96 | |
| Garibaldi, Giuseppe | 97 | |
| German secret service | 98 | |
| Giraud, Gen. Henri | 99 | |
| Glass, Charles | 99 | |
| Gordievsky, Oleg | 100 | |
| The Great Escape | 102 | |
| Grimson, George | 103 | |
| Grotius, Hugo | 104 | |
| Hackensack River | 107 | |
| Haldane, Capt. Aylmer | 107 | |
| "Harris, Eliza" | 108 | |
| Hinds, Alfie | 108 | |
| Holzminden | 109 | |
| Houdini, Harry | 110 | |
| Iranian embassy siege | 113 | |
| Iranian hostage rescue operation | 115 | |
| Irian Jaya | 117 | |
| Iron Curtain | 118 | |
| Japanese army, prisoners of | 121 | |
| Kabul | 125 | |
| Kalbowski, Harry | 125 | |
| Kandahar | 126 | |
| Kashmir | 127 | |
| Kennedy, John F. | 127 | |
| Kerensky, Aleksandr | 127 | |
| Khe Sahn | 128 | |
| Khmer Rouge | 130 | |
| King David Hotel | 131 | |
| Klemperer, Victor | 132 | |
| Koldyczewo Camp | 132 | |
| Kolwezi | 132 | |
| Korea | 133 | |
| Kosovo | 134 | |
| Latude, Henri Masers de | 135 | |
| Lawrence, Thomas Edward | 135 | |
| Le Chambon | 137 | |
| Lebrun, Lt. Pierre | 137 | |
| Lefebre, Gen. Louis | 138 | |
| Libby Prison | 138 | |
| Logan, Harvey | 140 | |
| Long Kesh Prison | 141 | |
| The Long March | 141 | |
| Louis XVIII | 142 | |
| Louis Napoleon | 143 | |
| Louis Phillipe | 144 | |
| Lucan, Lord Richard John | 144 | |
| Lucknow | 146 | |
| Ludendorff, Erich | 146 | |
| MacArthur, Douglas | 147 | |
| Magdeburg Prison | 148 | |
| Malmedy | 149 | |
| Mandela United Football Club | 149 | |
| Maple Leaf | 149 | |
| Maroon communities | 150 | |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | 151 | |
| Masaryk, Tomas | 153 | |
| Matilda, Empress | 153 | |
| Maze Prison | 154 | |
| McGartland, Martin | 155 | |
| McVicar, John | 156 | |
| Medieval England, imprisonment in | 157 | |
| MIS-X, M19 | 158 | |
| Mitchell, Frank | 159 | |
| Modena train break | 160 | |
| Mogadishu plane rescue | 161 | |
| Mohammed | 162 | |
| Morgan, Gen. John | 163 | |
| Mossad | 164 | |
| Moundsville Penitentiary, West Virginia | 165 | |
| Munich | 166 | |
| Mussolini, Benito | 166 | |
| My Lai | 168 | |
| Myagkov, Capt. Aleksei | 169 | |
| Nadir, Asil | 171 | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | 171 | |
| Napoleonic Wars | 171 | |
| Nazaroff, Paul | 172 | |
| New York | 173 | |
| Nijmegen | 173 | |
| Norway | 174 | |
| O'Grady, Scott | 177 | |
| Paine, Thomas | 179 | |
| Palestine | 179 | |
| Papillon (Henri Charriere) | 179 | |
| Parker, John | 181 | |
| Peruvian embassy siege | 182 | |
| Peterhead Prison | 184 | |
| Pignata, Giuseppe | 185 | |
| Pitman, Henry | 185 | |
| Pluschow, Gunther | 185 | |
| Potter, Arthur | 186 | |
| Prendergast, Sgt. John | 187 | |
| Press gangs, escape from | 187 | |
| Probyn, Walter | 188 | |
| Pym, John | 189 | |
| Rawicz, Slavomir | 191 | |
| Rescue attempts | 192 | |
| Rowe, James "Nick" | 193 | |
| Russian Revolution and civil war | 194 | |
| Rwandan genocide | 195 | |
| "Ryan, Chris," | 195 | |
| Sadat, Anwar | 197 | |
| Saigon | 197 | |
| Salado Prison, Mexico | 199 | |
| Salisbury Prison, Virginia | 199 | |
| San Quentin | 199 | |
| Santa Fe, New Mexico | 200 | |
| Schindler, Oscar | 201 | |
| Sea, escape and rescue at | 202 | |
| Servitude, escape into | 203 | |
| Sheppard, Jack | 204 | |
| Sing Sing | 204 | |
| Sobibor Concentration Camp | 205 | |
| Sparks, John | 206 | |
| Spartacus | 206 | |
| Spooner, Lt. Col. Pat | 207 | |
| Stalin, Joseph | 208 | |
| Tall, Robert | 211 | |
| Tchernavin family | 211 | |
| Tehran | 212 | |
| The Terror | 212 | |
| Titanic | 214 | |
| Tokyo, raid on | 216 | |
| Tower of London | 216 | |
| Trenck, Baron Frederick Von Der | 219 | |
| Trotsky, Leon | 220 | |
| Underground Railroad | 223 | |
| U.S. prisoner of war camps | 225 | |
| Valcour Island | 227 | |
| Vienna | 227 | |
| Vietnam War | 228 | |
| Von Trapp Family Singers | 229 | |
| Wagner, Richard | 231 | |
| Wallenberg, Raoul | 231 | |
| Warburg | 233 | |
| Ward Road Prison, Shanghai | 233 | |
| Werra, Franz von | 234 | |
| Wilson, Charlie | 236 | |
| Wooden Horse | 237 | |
| Zwickau Prison | 239 | |
| Bibliography | 241 | |
| Index | 247 |
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