Flying a Spitfire on a strafing mission on 19 June 1942, he was shot down off the Belgian coast. The Longest Tunnel: the true story of World War IIs great escape. A motorcycle racer before the war, he was mechanically minded, independent, and fearless, the perfect makings for a fighter pilot. Alan Burgess was an English author who wrote several biographical and non-fiction. There he enlisted in the RAF and was trained in Canada. Studying in Switzerland when the war started, Jens Muller made his way to England via a ship from Marseilles when the Nazis invaded Norway. It has taken three quarters of a century for the English translation to appear, but the wait has been well worth it. It first appeared in 1946 in Miiller's native Norway.
This latest addition was written by one of the three successful escapees of the 78 who tunneled out on the night of 24 March 1944. It has spawned a library of works, starting in 1950 with Sagan veteran Paul Brickhill's The Great Escape. The Stalag Luft III POW camp at Sagan, Poland, scene of the Great Escape and the subsequent tragic murder of fifty recaptured officers, has captured popular imagination since the end of World War II. First published in 1990 and based on sources not available for Paul Brickhill's earlier work, the book tells how on the night of March 24, 1944, seventy-six Allied POWs slid through a 350-foot tunnel and out of a high-security German prison camp, into. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 2019. This is the real story behind The Great Escape of World War II popularized in the now-classic movie starring Steve McQueen and James Garner. The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Memoir of Jens Muller.
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