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The book centers particularly on his participation in the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III.

331 Squadron RAF, when he was shot down over the sea during a flight mission on 19 June 1942.

[4] In 1943 the prisoners were moved to a new camp site, and shortly thereafter they secretly organized the digging of three new tunnels, called Tom, Dick and Harry.

During the travel they were camouflaged as Norwegian electricians working in Germany, equipped with false documents made by other prisoners, including travel orders to change their workplace from Frankfurt to Stettin.

[8] Only three of the seventy-six runaways from Stalag Luft III managed to escape to freedom, while the other 73 were caught after a giant man-hunt, and fifty men were executed by shooting as reprisal.