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Description
Some prisons were built to be impossible to escape.
Massive walls. Armed towers. Electrified fences. Isolation cells. Oceans, deserts, mountains, and minefields designed to trap anyone who dared to run.
And yet, throughout history, prisoners escaped anyway.
The Greatest Prison Escapes takes readers deep inside the world’s most daring breakouts — from the icy waters surrounding Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary to secret tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall, from helicopter extractions over European prisons to dramatic wartime escapes from Nazi prison camps and concentration camps.
Inside these pages are the astonishing true stories of inmates, resistance fighters, war prisoners, cartel leaders, political dissidents, and fugitives who risked everything for freedom.
Discover:
The legendary 1962 escape from Alcatraz
The massive IRA breakout from Maze Prison
Helicopter prison escapes that humiliated authorities
The tunnel escape of Joaquín Guzmán
Cold War tunnel operations beneath East Berlin
The revolt and escape from Sobibor extermination camp
The psychology of escape, survival, and rebellion
The largest manhunts launched to recapture fugitives
The corruption, inside help, and security failures behind famous escapes
Blending true crime, history, war, psychology, and suspense, this gripping nonfiction book explores not only how prisoners escaped, but why the world remains endlessly fascinated by those who outsmarted supposedly impossible systems.
Some escaped for freedom. Some escaped for survival. Some vanished forever.
And some became legends.
ISBN: 9798196665905
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