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Prisoners of the Castle audiobook
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrator: Ben Macintyre
- Category: 20th Century, History, Modern
- Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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Prisoners of the Castle Audiobook Summary
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “entertaining yet objective and often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried relentlessly to escape their captors, from the author of The Spy and the Traitor
“Not since Ian Fleming and John le Carré has a spy writer so captivated readers.”—The Hollywood Reporter
In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend.
But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair. In Macintyre’s telling, Colditz’s most famous names—like the indomitable Pat Reid—share glory with lesser known but equally remarkable characters like Indian doctor Birendranath Mazumdar whose ill treatment, hunger strike, and eventual escape read like fiction; Florimond Duke, America’s oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent; and Christopher Clayton Hutton, the brilliant inventor employed by British intelligence to manufacture covert escape aids for POWs.
Prisoners of the Castle traces the war’s arc from within Colditz’s stone walls, where the stakes rose as Hitler’s war machine faltered and the men feared that liberation would not come soon enough to spare them a grisly fate at the hands of the Nazis. Bringing together the wartime intrigue of his acclaimed Operation Mincemeat and keen psychological portraits of his bestselling true-life spy stories, Macintyre has breathed new life into one of the greatest war stories ever told.
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Prisoners of the Castle Full Details
| Narrator | Ben Macintyre |
| Length | 13 hours 25 minutes |
| Author | Ben Macintyre |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | May 01, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593629253 |
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The publisher of the Prisoners of the Castle is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: colditz, best selling books 2022, new york times best sellers, gifts for dad, dad gifts, wwii, ww2, world war two, world war 2, prisoners of war, prison books, nazi germany, true story books, history buff gifts, survivor, prison, gifts for history buffs, hitler, true story, true crime gifts, true crime books, history book, history books, history books for adults, true stories, nazi, war books, wwii books, world war ii, ww2 books, world war 2 books, prisoners of the castle, prisoner, prisoners, non fiction best sellers, History, Modern, 20th Century, History, Military, World War II, Social Science, Penology The BISAC Subject Code is 20th Century, History, Modern
Additional info
The publisher of the Prisoners of the Castle is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593629253.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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