Colditz - Ben Macintyre

THE THRILLING TRUE STORY OF THE NAZIS’ MOST INFAMOUS PRISON

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop deep in Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors – or so the myth of Colditz has been told, unchallenged for seventy years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.

The astonishing inside story, revealed here for the first time by bestselling historian Ben Macintyre, is a thrilling tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of class conflict and sexual liaisons, bullying. and espionage, insanity and farce.

Revealing a remarkable cast of characters, from eminent officers and their long-suffering orderlies to a hunger-striking Indian doctor and a Polish housewife turned secret agent, Macintyre paints a vivid new picture of the prisoners and their jailers, who lived side by side for years in an epic game of cat and mouse.

Deeply researched and full of incredible stories of heroes who were also human, this is classic Ben Macintyre – and the definitive book on Colditz.