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The greatest escape stories ever told
Title:
The greatest escape stories ever told
Author:
Brown, Darren.
Publication Information:
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, [2002]

©2002
Physical Description:
ix, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction / Darren Brown -- Escape from the Tower of London / John Buchan -- Jack Sheppard earns fame / Phillip Alban -- Escape from Leads / Casanova -- The Bastille / Henri Masers de Latude -- Trenck at Magdenburg / Baron Trenck -- Louis Napoleon / F.T. Briffault -- The cemetery of the Chateau d'If / Alexandre Dumas -- A question of passports / Baroness Orczy -- Three years among the Comanches / Nelson Lee -- General Morgan's flight from the north / Thomas Hines -- Colonel Rose's tunnel / Frank Moran -- How we escaped from Pretoria / Captain Aylmer Haldane -- A gunman breaks jail / Edward H. Smith. Eamon de Valera / Frank Kelly -- Georgia chain gang fugitive / Robert E. Burns -- Papillon / Henri Charriere -- A man escaped / Andre Devigny -- Escape strategy / Pat Reid -- Bid for freedom / Walter Thomas -- Escape or die / Paul Brickhill -- The war journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause / Major Damon Gause -- Down in Korea / Ward Millar -- Escape from Laos / Dieter Dengler -- Out of a Turkish prison / Billy Hayes with William Hoffer -- Dark, deep-laid plans / Mark Twain.
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ISBN:
9781585744541
Format :
Book