From: New York : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c1990. There are far more superior books to read reading the Great Escape, especially those written by those who were there that I would recommend them all repeatedly before this book ever got a mention.in fact this book is a mess and very poor. The longest tunnel : the true story of World War IIs great escape tunnel / Alan Burgess. I found his writing and terminology quite childish at times, especially his dialogue. There was a 2hr delay in opening the exit and in the first hour they only got 6 out, so they were behind schedule, they decided to stop at 5.30am because it was getting to light. The time for the escape was not 9am Friday to 5.30am Sat.
The use of ropes for exiting the tunnel was not planned, it came about because the tunnel was too short and didn't the reach the forest. The first 40 (not 30) were those who had worked the hardest on the tunnels. First published in 1990 and based on sources not available for Paul Brickhill's earlier work, the book tells how on the night of March 24, 1944, seventy-six Allied POWs slid through a 350-foot tunnel and out of a high-security German prison camp, into history. 79 made it out of the tunnel but 3 were caught right there. Alan also appears to have got a few things muddled in terms of English language (pancakes?!! Belly crash, not a normal landing) and his numbers for escaping, 220 were lined up to escape, not 200. This book appears to have quite an American bias to it when compared with other books written about Stalag Luft III.
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