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On the night of March 24, 1944, Bram Vanderstok was number 18 of 76 men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland. His memoir sets down his wartime adventures before being incarcerated in Stalag Luft III and then, in extraordinary detail, describes various escape attempts which culminated with the famous March breakout.

Jens Müller was one of only three men who successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 - the break that later became the basis for the famous film The Great Escape. In this vivid, informative memoir, Müller details what life in the camp was like, how the escapes were planned and executed, and the story of his personal breakout and success reaching the RAF Leuchars base in Scotland.

Er sei der "Dümmste aller Süddeutschen" sagte Kaiser Wilhelm II. einmal über Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Um die Jahrhundertwende hatte der selbstbewusste Graf vorauszusagen gewagt, dass Luftschiffe bald "zu den sichersten Fahrzeugen" für Fernreisen zählen würden. Seine Hoffnung, dass "Zeppeline" sich als Wunderwaffen im Ersten Weltkrieg bewähren, scheiterte.