Neil Hanson (1) (1948–)
Auteur de The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Neil Hanson, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: John Alexander
Œuvres de Neil Hanson
The Custom of the Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck, Murder, and the Last Taboo (1999) 235 exemplaires
The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial (2022) 17 exemplaires
The Heroic Gangster : The Story of Monk Eastman, from the Streets of New York to the Battlefields of Europe and Back (2013) 4 exemplaires
O Costume do Mar 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Adrenaline 2000: The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival 2000 (2000) — Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
Goldfinder : the true story of one man's discovery of the ocean's richest secrets (1998) — Auteur, quelques éditions — 32 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Hanson, Neil Clive
- Date de naissance
- 1948-12-10
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Professions
- non-fiction writer
- Organisations
- Fellowship of the Royal Literary Fund
Membres
Critiques
Listes
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 1,235
- Popularité
- #20,793
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 26
- ISBN
- 65
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1
As in WW II, the blockade of Europe and specifically Germany led to shortages of everything including food. Thus it is understandable that Germany found it difficult to properly feed 1000's of prisoners when it could not feed its own people. The Red Cross packages and family provided parcels sent by POW's families kept the prisoners alive and apparently many of their guards who stole from the packages.
This book concentrates on the story of Holzminden Prison Camp which was run by a psychopath named Hauptmann Karl "Milwaukee Bill" Niemeyer described by someone as the personification of hate. His treatment of the POW's was cruel and inhuman and what we saw repeated twenty years later under the Nazi regime in WW II.
The title of the book is about a mass escape from this prison which became known as the first Great Escape. The ingenuity of the men to overcome so many difficulties in digging the tunnel and keeping it a secret for such a long period of time is amazing. After the escape, the Germans forced prisoners to did up the tunnel so they could discover where the entrance to it was because the prisoners had hidden it so completely the Germans were unable to find it.… (plus d'informations)