The Diggers Of Colditz - Jack Champ, Colin Burgess

Jack Champ, Colin Burgess

Category: History

Narrator: Steve Shanahan

Tags: History, Military

The Diggers of Colditz The Classic Australian POW Story About Escape from the Impossible By: Jack Champ, Colin Burgess Narrated by: Steve Shanahan Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins Audiobook Release date: 17-06-2019 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia Colditz Castle was Nazi Germanys infamous escape-proof wartime prison, where hundreds of the most determined and resourceful Allied prisoners were sent. Despite having more guards than inmates, Australian Lieutenant Jack Champ and other prisoners tirelessly carried out their campaign to escape from the massive floodlit stronghold, by any means necessary., In this riveting account - by turns humorous, heartfelt, and tragic - historian Colin Burgess and Lieutenant Jack Champ, from the point of view of the prisoners themselves, tell the story of the 20 Australians who made this castle their home, and the plans they made that were so crazy that some even achieved the seemingly impossible - escape!, A stirring testimony of mateship