The Great Escape (book)

The Great Escape

First UK edition (publ. Faber) Cover art by Ley Kenyon
Author	Paul Brickhill
Language	English
Publisher	Norton (US), Faber (UK)
Publication date	1950 (US), 1951 (UK)

The Great Escape is a 1950 book by Australian writer Paul Brickhill that provides an insider's account of the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen. As a prisoner in the camp, he participated in the escape plan but was debarred from the actual escape 'along with three or four others on grounds of claustrophobia'.^[1] The introduction to the book is written by George Harsh, an American POW at Stalag Luft III. This book was made into the 1963 film The Great Escape.