Colditz Prisoners of the Castle - Ben MacIntyre

Ben MacIntyre

Category: History

Narrator: Ben MacIntyre

Tags: History, Military, Misc. Non-fiction

Colditz Prisoners of the Castle By: Ben Macintyre Narrated by: Ben MacIntyre Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 15-09-2022 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Audio, In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth., The astonishing inside story, revealed for the first time by bestselling historian Ben Macintyre, is a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of class conflict, homosexuality, espionage, insanity and farce. Through an astonishing range of material, Macintyre reveals a remarkable cast of characters, wider than previously seen and hitherto hidden from history, taking in prisoners and captors who were living cheek-by-jowl in a thrilling game of cat and mouse., From the elitist members of the