Research & Reading:-
"After The Battle" Magazine, Issue No 87. Church House, Church Street, London E15 3JA
UK. 0181 534 8833. Fax 0181 555 7567. An excellent read, full of useful information and
photographs, including a complete photo list of the victims.
"The Longest Tunnel" Alan Burgess. 1990 Bloomsbury Publishing, 2 Soho Square, London
W1VV 5DE. ISBN 0-7475-0589-6. Burgess' account is excellent and should be read by anyone
interested in the escape.
"Exemplary Justice" Alan Andrews. 1976, George G Harrap Ltd, London. ISBN 0-245-52775-3.
Excellently detailed account of the search for the murderers and accessories.
"The Great Escape" Paul Brickhill. 1951 Arrow Books, 3 Fitzroy Square, London W1P 6JD.
ISBN 0-09-919020-6. Brickhill speaks from a personal point of view (he was there) but is
occasionally vague, or wrong, on the fine detail.
"Fly For Your Life" Larry Forrester. 1956 Frederick Muller. The biography of W/Cdr
Roland Robert Stanford-Tuck, DSO, DFC and 2 bars.
"The Escape Factory: The Story of
Mis-X" Lloyd Shoemaker. St Martin's Press, May
1990. ISBN 0312038267.
"Wirebound World" by H P Clark, published by Alfred H Cooper Ltd, arranged by Wallace
Heaton Ltd. An immediate postwar publication (7-Mar-46) unlikely to be available today.
"A Glimpse at Stalag Luft III
(North Compound)" a privately compiled album
by Tony Bethel.
"Stalag Luft III" by Arthur A Durand, Patrick Stephens Ltd 1989, ISBN 1-85260-248-1
"Spotlight on Stalag Luft III" by "Scangriff", a private compendium published in 1947.
"Flak and Ferrets" by Walter Morison, Motor Books, ISBN 1-87467-092.
"Wingless Victory" by L R Sidwell, private publication by Merlin Books Ltd, Braunston,
Devon, England.
"Final Flight" John Hartnell-Beavis. Private publication via Anthony Rowe,
Chippenham, Wiltshire UK. ISBN 0 86303 251 6.
"The London Cage" by Lt. Col. A.P.
Scotland OBE, Evans Brothers Ltd, 1957, ISBN 0 7041 0015 0. This covers the interrogation
by the author of several of the Nazis responsible for the murders.
There was a BBC2 Documentary in the series "Going
Underground" broadcast on the 50th Anniversary of the Escape, 29th
March 1994. This revisited the site and the local station with some of the survivors,
retracing their steps.
Documents in the AIR40 section of the Public
Records Office, Kew, London are extremely comprehensive and contain many documents
relating to, or even signed by, the people in this article. Notable is AIR40/268
which is the official history of Stalag Luft III, and other documents in the range AIR40/2265
to AIR40/2293, which refer in great detail to the investigation and its progress as
well as fascinating minutiae of Camp life, such as correspondence between the Kommandant
and the SBO and many preserved internal documents, all of which are well worth a browse. Details of accessing PRO documents.
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