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The Grand Escape
by Neal Bascomb
Ages: 12+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Scholastic Focus
ISBN: 978-1-338-14034-7
Keywords: World War I, Prisoners of War, Biography
In a daring feat of bravery, captured British officers tunnel underground to escape a German World War I prisoner-of-war camp. Archival photographs and diagrams. Back matter