Zero Night

Oflag VI-B, Warburg, Germany, 30 August 1942: 'Zero Night'. Forty officers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa stage the first 'Great Escape' - the most audacious mass escape of POWs of the Second World War.

Months of meticulous planning hang in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as the prisoners charge the camp's double perimeter fences, climbing to freedom using ingenious wooden scaling contraptions.

Telling this remarkable story in full for the first time, Mark Felton brilliantly evokes the suspense of the escape itself and the adventures of the fugitives in enemy territory, as well as the courage of the civilians who risk their lives to help them. But how many prisoners will make it home? 

Author: Mark Felton

Publisher: Icon Books 

Released Date: 2015

ISBN: 9781848318472