The flame keepers

"Ned Handy describes the start of the night, in the winter of 1944 when he and a fellow American POW would try to break out of Stalag 17, Germany's notorious prison camp. One of them would become the only POW to escape and fight once more against the Nazis." "Handy was one of the 4,300 American fliers shot down over Germany and dumped into Stalag 17. He and his comrades were young men who, every day, had to seek new and ingenious ways to stay alive and outwit their German captors. By turns suspenseful thriller and tender memoir, The Flame Keepers recounts in vivid detail one of the great…