The incredible story of a 14th century Great Escape from the Tower of London | Books | Entertainment
The Tower of London was a prison until the 1950s (Image: Rudy Sulgan/Getty)
The mass escape of Allied airmen from a German prisoner of war camp remains one of history’s most famous jail-breaks. Stalag Luft III was designed to be escape-proof but PoWs, using impressive ingenuity to remain undetected, dug a tunnel, then crawled their way to safety 30ft below the oblivious guards.
It was an amazing master-stroke of courage and endurance nearly 80 years ago in March 1944. Unfortunately, the…
