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100 1  Felton, Mark,|d1974-|eauthor. 
245 10 Zero Night :|bthe untold story of World War Two's greatest
       escape /|cMark Felton. 
250    First U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York :|bThomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press,|c2015.
300    xvii, 299 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "First published in Great Britain by Icon Books Ltd"--
       Title page verso. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-270) and 
       index. 
505 0  A note on the text -- Prologue -- Barbed Wire Horizon -- 
       Trial and Error -- The Wire -- Short Circuit -- Diversions
       -- "Big X" -- Operation Timber -- Practice Makes Perfect -
       - The Road Less Travelled -- Pack Up Your Troubles -- 
       Fifteen Yards to Freedom -- Zero Night -- "Another British
       Evacuation" -- A Walk in the Woods -- "Hande hoch!" -- The
       Bitter Road -- Three Blind Mice -- Comet Line -- The Last 
       Frontier -- Epilogue -- Maps. 
520 2  "On August 30, 1942--Zero Night--40 Allied officers staged
       the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of 
       meticulous planning and secret training hung in the 
       balance during three minutes of mayhem as the officers 
       boldly stormed the huge double fences at Oflag Prison.  
       Employing wooden ladders and bridges previously disguised 
       as bookshelves, the highly coordinated effort succeeded 
       and set 36 men free into the German countryside. Later 
       known as the 'Warburg Wire Job', fellow prisoner and 
       fighter ace Douglas Bader once described the attempt as 
       'the most brilliant escape conception of this war'. The 
       first author to tackle this remarkable story in detail, 
       historian Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of 
       the escape and the adventures of those escapees who 
       managed to elude the Germans, as well as the courage of 
       the civilians who risked their lives to help them in enemy
       territory. Fantastically intimate and told with a 
       novelist's eye for drama and detail, this rip-roaring 
       adventure is all the more thrilling because it really 
       happened"--|cProvided by publisher. 
610 20 Oflag VI B (Concentration camp) 
650  0 Prisoner-of-war escapes|zGermany|zWarburg|xHistory|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 Prisoners of war|zGermany|zWarburg|xHistory|y20th century.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xPrisoners and prisons, German. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|zGermany|zWarburg. 
775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aFelton, Mark, 1974-
       |tZero Night|dLondon : Icon Books Ltd, 2014|z9781848317192