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Chargement... The Wooden Horse (original 1949; édition 1968)par Eric Williams (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreLe cheval de bois par Eric Williams (1949)
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It is over fifty years since the critics of the day acclaimed The Wooden Horse as a superbly told story of the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War. Millions of readers agreed, and the book became a modern classic. This revised and expanded edition tells the tale. The escape itself was conceived on classical lines. The Greeks built a wooden horse and by means of it got into the city of Troy; in 1943 two British officers built a wooden horse and by means of it got out of a German prison camp. Together with a third companion, they were the only British prisoners ever to escap Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I decided to read The Wooden Horse because it was mentioned in The Great Escape. The Wooden Horse was more interesting when the tunnel was being built, when the POWs escaped and during the trek across Germany. The story slowed a bit when John and Peter were trying to get to Sweden. It was a good story, although the last quarter of the book dragged until the end - which came rather suddenly. (