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Michael Joseph
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An American Colonel plots the mass escape of 1000 American and British prisioners of war who are being transfered out of Italy by German soldiers after Italy has surrendered in W.W. II.
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1964
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308 p.; 21 cm
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Westheimer (1917–2005) served the United States Army Air Forces as a navigator in a B-24 and was shot down over Italy. He spent time as a PoW in Italy as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III. This novel about an escape from Italy to Switzerland was adapted as a film starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard in 1965.