Escape From Colditz Author:P.R. Reid Escape From Colditz is a combination of two books, The Colditz Story and Men of Colditz. Colditz was a prison in Germany for Allied solders who were considered the elite, bad boys who had escaped from other prisoner camps during WWII and had been recaptured. Colditz Castle was an imposing medieval fortress built on a cliff. It was moated and s... more »urrounded by palisades of barbed wire on the edge of vast precipices. It was flooded with spotlights every night. The guard garrison outnumbered the prisons at all times. This book is the story of the bold, imaginative men who kept trying over and over to escape. In four and a half years there were over three hundred escape attempts and, while relatively few reached the safety of Allied territory, the miracle was that any succeeded. Escape from Colditz is a tribute to the courage and ingenuity of the men who lived the story. It demonstrates that truth is sometimes not only stranger than fiction, but much more exciting.« less