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The DodgerTim Carroll

The Dodger

Tim Carroll
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"The ... story of Johnny Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the ... Hollywood film The Great Escape. ... American-born Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the 'Great Escape.' Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of the Saschenhausen concentration camp on the orders of…

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7 editions
  • Other · English · 2013
    Dodger
    Globe Pequot Press, The · 9781322090993
  • Other · English · 2013
    Dodger
    Globe Pequot Press, The · 9780762794195
  • Other · English · 2013
    Dodger
    Globe Pequot Press, The · 336 pages · 9780762787760
  • Other · English · 2013
    Dodger
    Penguin Random House · 336 pages · 9781780576060
  • Other · English · 2013
    Paragon · 9781471301193
  • Other · English · 2012
    Mainstream · 9781845967994
Prisoners of warSachsenhausen (Concentration camp)German Prisoners and prisonsPrisoner-of-war escapesWorld War, 1939-1945Stalag Luft IIIBiographyWarfare and Defence