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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: | 9781576071908 |
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Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publication date: | 08/01/1999 |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.58(d) |
Age Range: | 12 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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