The Wooden Horse

The escape story that became a legend. Three British officers held in Stalag Luft III, the camp built specifically to be escape-proof, dug a tunnel under the cover of a wooden vaulting horse used for daily exercise in the yard. The plan worked. They got out, made it across Germany on foot and by train, and stowed away on a Danish ship to Sweden. Eric Williams was one of them, and his book remains one of the great POW escape narratives. Made into the famous 1950 film with Leo Genn and Anthony Steel, the same year this edition was published.