Escape from Stalag Luft III: The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstok
Bram Vanderstok
Apr 2019 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by John Lee
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On the night of March 24, 1944, Bram Vanderstok was number eighteen of seventy-six men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland. The 1963 film The Great Escape, was largely based on this autobiography but-with Vanderstok's agreement-filmmakers chose to turn his story into an Australian character named Sedgwick. His memoir sets down his wartime adventures before being incarcerated in Stalag Luft III and then in extraordinary detail describes various escape attempts which culminated with the famous March breakout. After escaping, Vanderstok roamed Europe for weeks, passing through Leipzig, Utrecht, Brussels, Paris, Dijon, and Madrid, before making it back to England. He reported to the Air Ministry and two months after escaping returned to the British No. 91 Squadron. In the following months he flew almost every day to France escorting bombers and knocking down V1 rockets. In August 1944 he finally returned to his home. He learned that his two brothers had been killed in concentration camps after being arrested for resistance work. His father had been tortured and blinded by the Gestapo during interrogation. He had never betrayed his son.
About the author
Bram Vanderstok, MBE, was born on October 13, 1915 in Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies. he was a world war II fighter pilot and still holds the record as the most decorated aviator in Dutch history. After the war he studied and practiced medicine as well as working with the U.S. Coast Guard auxiliary, participating in 162 rescues. He died in February 1993.
John Lee has read audiobooks in almost every conceivable genre, from Charles Dickens to Patrick O'Brian, and from the very real life of Napoleon to the entirely imagined lives of sorcerers and swashbucklers. An AudioFile Golden Voice narrator, he is the winner of numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards.
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