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100 1  Macintyre, Ben,|d1963-|eauthor. 
245 10 Prisoners of the castle :|ban epic story of survival and 
       escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison /|cBen 
       Macintyre. 
250    First edition. 
263    2209 
264  1 New York :|bCrown,|c[2022] 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    xvii, 342 pages, [32] pages of plates :|billustrations, 
       maps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-328) and 
       index. 
505 0  Prologue: Franz Josef -- The originals -- Le Ray's run -- 
       The bad boys' camp -- Goon-baiting -- Ballet nonsense -- 
       Le Métro -- Clutty of MI9 -- Seeking for a path -- 
       Dogsbody -- The Prominente club -- Shabash -- The dentist 
       spies -- Madness -- The sparrows -- The red fox -- The 
       Rhine maiden -- Besieged -- Endgame. 
520    "In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of 
       the most famous prison stories in history and makes it 
       utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used
       the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant 
       Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the 
       castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious 
       escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre
       shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than 
       escape. Its population represented a society in miniature,
       full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret 
       alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In
       Macintyre's telling, Colditz's most famous names--like the
       indomitable Pat Reid--share glory with lesser known but 
       equally remarkable characters like Indian doctor 
       Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, 
       and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, 
       America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret 
       agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant 
       inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture 
       covert escape aids for POWs. Prisoners of the Castle 
       traces the war's arc from within Colditz's stone walls, 
       where the stakes rose as Hitler's war machine faltered and
       the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough 
       to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis. 
       Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed 
       Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of 
       his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has 
       breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories 
       ever told."--|cProvided by publisher. 
610 20 Oflag IV C (Concentration camp) 
610 20 Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany)|xHistory. 
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610 27 Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00631247 
647  7 World War|d(1939-1945)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01180924 
648  7 1939-1945|2fast 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xPrisoners and prisons, German. 
650  0 Prisoner-of-war escapes|zGermany|zColditz|xHistory. 
650  0 Prisoners of war|zGermany|zColditz. 
650  7 Prisoner-of-war escapes.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01077102 
650  7 Prisoners of war.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01077227 
651  7 Germany|zColditz.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01223838 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aMacintyre, Ben.|tPrisoners of the 
       castle|dNew York : Crown, [2022]|z9780593136348|w(DLC)  
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