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Paul Brickhill

Born

in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

December 20, 1916

Died

April 23, 1991

Genre

Nonfiction, History

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From Rosetta Books:

Though The Great Escape is a novel, its basic story is true, and the novel's author Paul Brickhill (1916-91) was a participant in it. Brickhill, an Australian, had flown missions against the Germans in Tunisia for the Royal Australian Air Force when he was shot down in 1943. Locked away and bored in Silesia in Luft Stalag III, he and his fellow prisoners concocted an escape plan -- a daring idea that would result in a mass escape from the Germans. Of the 76 officers who escaped, only three were successful; Hitler himself ordered the execution of 47 of the men who were recaptured. Still, the escape remains one of the great heroic stories of World War II.

A native of Melbourne, Brickhill had begun a career as a newspaper rep ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 13,585 ratings · 819 reviews · 44 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Great Escape 4.22 avg rating — 10,500 ratings — published 1950 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reach for the Sky 4.31 avg rating — 1,428 ratings — published 1954 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dam Busters 4.30 avg rating — 1,266 ratings — published 1951 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escape or Die: True Stories of Heroic Escape in the Second World War 4.05 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 1946 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Escape 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Military Classics: The Great Escape / The White Rabbit by Paul Brickhill, Bruce Marshall really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	War of Nerves 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1962 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Victory Boxset: Five Classic True Stories from WWII by Paul Brickhill, P.R. Reid, Max Hastings it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“The British obviously overlooked the fact that an American only has to be sold on the idea that his cause is just and he is capable of anything.”
― Paul Brickhill, The Great Escape

tags: america, americans, britain, britons, justice, war, wwii

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“Funny people, the Germans. When you got them in a bunch they were all Nazis (they had to be), but when you got the little people by themselves and worked on them for a while they didn't have any morale underneath. Inside they seemed naked and defenceless.”
― Paul Brickhill, The Great Escape

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“So even if you got it loaded it could not be anything more than a study in still-life until you took the jacks away, and then the scrap metal wouldn't be funny.”
― Paul Brickhill, The Dam Busters

tags: projects

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