His third and last escape destabilized the Nazi leadership and captured the imagination of the world.
Three months of savage interrogation in Berlin by the Gestapo made him even more determined. His second escape found him sheltered by the Czech resistance in Prague for eight months before capture. Over the next four years he made three escapes, coming within 100 yards of the Swiss border during his first attempt. From then on his life was governed by an unquenchable desire to escape Occupied Europe. In May of 1940 his Spitfire was shot down over Boulogne after destroying two German fighters. He was also renowned as an international ski champion and fighter pilot with a string of glamorous girlfriends. Born in South Africa as the son of a British mining engineer, by the age of 29 he was a British lawyer who spoke nine languages and had a reputation for successfully defending those less fortunate than him. Exclusive access to this material and fascinating new research have resulted in the first biography of this iconic figure. Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when his family donated his private papers-a treasure trove of letters, photographs, and diaries-to the Imperial War Museum. Roger Bushell was "Big X," mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalized in the Hollywood film The Great Escape. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.įor the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape comes the first biography of its mastermind You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements.
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