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The One That Got Away (Pen & Sword Military Classics Book 73) Kindle Edition

by Kendal Burt (Author), James Leasor (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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In World War II James Leasor was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment and posted to the 1st Lincolns in Burma and India, where he served for three and a half years. His experiences inspired him to write such books as Boarding Party (filmed as The Sea Wolves). He later became a feature writer and foreign correspondent at the Daily Express. Here he wrote The One that Got Away. As well as non-fiction, Leasor has written novels, including Passport to Oblivion, filmed as Where the Spies Are with David Niven
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    April 20, 2006
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James Leasor was educated at the City of London School and at Oriel College, Oxford. In the Second World War he was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment and posted to 1st Lincolns in Burma. He served for three and a half years in Burma and India. Later, on the staff of the Daily Express as feature writer and foreign correspondent, he wrote The One that Got Away in collaboration This is the story of the only German POW in the Second World War to escape from Allied hands. James Leasor then resigned from the Express and has since written many factual books and a number of novels, including the Dr Jason Love series which have been published in 19 countries. His books dealing with wartime episodes include Singapore- the Battle that Changed the World; Hess; The Uninvited Envoy, Green Beach- about a secret episode on the Dieppe raid; The Unknown Warior, dealing with anti-Nazi German nationals who served in a special unit in the British Army and Boarding Party which narrates an undercover exploit of the territorial unit, The Calcutta Light Horse. War at the Top describes the experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis, RM, who was Senior Military Assistant Sectary to the War Office. Hollis, later Commandant General of the Royal Marines, first told James Leasor about William Doyle, The Marine From Mandalay

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00K1KIW3Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Military Classics; Illustrated edition (April 20, 2006)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 20, 2006
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6.7 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 342 pages
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    James Leasor was one of the bestselling British authors of the second half of the 20th Century. He wrote over 50 books including a rich variety of thrillers, historical novels and biographies.

    His works included the critically acclaimed The Red Fort, the story of the Indian Mutiny of 1957, The Marine from Mandalay, Boarding Party (made into the film The Sea Wolves starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Roger Moore), The Plague and the Fire, and The One that Got Away (made into a film starring Hardy Kruger). He also wrote Passport to Oblivion (which sold over 4 million copies around the World and was filmed as Where the Spies Are, starring David Niven), the first of nine novels featuring Dr Jason Love, a Cord car owning Somerset GP called to aid Her Majesty's Secret Service in foreign countries, and another bestselling series about the Far Eastern merchant Robert Gunn in the 19th century. There were also sagas set in Africa and Asia, written under the pseudonym Andrew MacAllan, and tales narrated by an unnamed vintage car dealer in Belgravia, who drives a Jaguar SS100.

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  • Byravan Viswanathan
    5.0 out of 5 stars So good to know the story was made into a film ...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2016
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    Finally I got know about the legendary von Werra, the one that got away. So good to know the story was made into a film by the U.K. with Hardy Kruger as von Werra. I have seen that and the book is closer to the fact than the film although that movie was excellent.
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  • Clayton Sargisson
    4.0 out of 5 stars A good read
    Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2001
    A very good story of escape from a Germans point of view. Von Werra is obviously a man who likes to expand on his version of events but the authors research into what really took place puts a more credible light on it. I finished the book in 2 days.
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  • David. Corner
    5.0 out of 5 stars The One that got away
    Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2017
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    A Really interesting good book to read about German prisoners of war. It is different from the book of the same name as it goes more in to depth about his escape
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  • Antonio Luis Sapienza
    5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2017
    It is one of the most surprinsing biographies I have ever read. Highly recommendable!!!
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  • Jared Morely
    5.0 out of 5 stars History for real.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2012
    Published when few books detailed German experiences during WW2, this is an objective, well-written account of a POW who wasn't content to sit out the war. Read it in the
    late '50s and again in the 2000s, and enjoyed it all over again. Very enjoyable read.
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  • Saaben
    1.0 out of 5 stars Hard to believe
    Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2012
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    As the avid reader of survival stories and POW escape stories I bought this book. The prison he escaped from sounds like a bad hotel. I had to quit reading during the second escape attempt. It just started to get unbelievable and I quickly lost interest. To give an example they are trying to dig a tunnel 10 meters long. i live on a farm and have dug a lot of holes in my life. They needed to get rid of a tremendous amount of dirt. They just happened to find a well in the prison yard that they easily deposit all the dirt? They have a choir that covers up the noise and they talk about decorating the cells? In my 45 years on this earth I have rarely heard of a prison that had so many luxuries unless it was one here in the states for politicians. I tried to save some money and took a chance but advise picking another book. The Japanese treated their prisoners horribly as do many other nations. I guess the British were kinder and more civilized but I mean why even bother writing a book. What you went through was unpleasant but certainly the Germans did not treat people nearly the same. Again save your money and move on.
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  • Garry Boston
    2.0 out of 5 stars Exemplified Cleverness at Work
    Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2013
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    I had heard the story from a German World War II Luftwaffe pilot and the book traces the account told to me. The story was common knowledge within the Luftwaffe.
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  • Bill Wilson
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Spy Novel
    Reviewed in Canada on May 6, 2024
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    A story of a German POW who escaped from Canada and returned via US, Mexico and South America.
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  • Mr. Andrew Burns
    5.0 out of 5 stars From the other side
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2013
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    Is interesting to read a WWII escape from the other sides point of view. Not written by the escaper himself, but well worth the read.
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  • Daniel A Boulet
    4.0 out of 5 stars The story of an audacious Luftwaffe pilot
    Reviewed in Canada on November 29, 2022
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    The interesting stopry of Franz von Werra, the only German Luftwaffe pilot to be taken prisoner by the Allies and who managed to escape and return to Germany.
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  • LP
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great War Story
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2012
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    I downloaded this book as I am researching prisoners during the second world war but what a cracking tale it turned out to be. Although it is a true story it reads like a thriller in the John Buchan vein and creates a world where the plodding Brits are a great deal cannier than they first appear and the Germans are far more sympathetically portrayed than was usual in 1953. One cannot help admiring serial-escapee von Werra for his tenacity and courage at the same time as enjoying the gentlemanly British interrogation techniques which have you squirming with embarrassment as von Werra's past war exploits turn out to be spectacularly embellished. With this in mind I do wonder if using von Werra's own account of his adventures may have put an extra spin on the facts but this doesn't lessen the incredible achievement of the only German prisoner of war to escape from the Allies. (He didn't manage to escape from England though – it was the Canadians who let him slip away.)

    A great read well written and beautifully researched.
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  • Pat Jordan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent historical account
    Reviewed in Canada on August 16, 2021
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    What a story!
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