Escape from Stalag Luft III: The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstok

On the night of March 24, 1944, Bram Vanderstok was number eighteen of seventy-six men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland. The 1963 film The Great Escape, was largely based on this autobiography but-with Vanderstok's agreement-filmmakers chose to turn his story into an Australian character named Sedgwick.



His memoir sets down his wartime adventures before being incarcerated in Stalag Luft III and then in extraordinary detail describes various escape ...