Author: Friedrich W. Moller
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Languages : en
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Wooden Horse, The (Peter Goes Riding).
Author: Friedrich W. Moller
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The Wooden Horse
Author: Eric Williams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1629140325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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An epic adventure—the most brilliant escape and evasion from the Nazis ever written. Eric Williams, a Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, the infamous German POW camp. Digging an underground tunnel hidden beneath a wooden vaulting horse, he managed to escape after ten months and, accompanied by a fellow officer, made his way back to England. In this thinly fictionalized retelling, Williams relates his story in three distinct phases: the construction of a tunnel (its entrance camouflaged by the wooden vaulting horse in the exercise yard) and hiding the large quantities of sand he dug; the escape; and the journey on foot and by train to the port of Stettin, where Williams and his fellow escapee stowed away aboard a Danish ship, the Norensen. From painstakingly digging the tunnel to secretly depositing the dirt and gravel around the camp to dodging searchlights and search dogs and climbing barbed wire fences, this is an escape story hard to beat. For sheer heroism, courage, and perseverance, this classic is arguably the most ingenious POW escape of WWII. The Wooden Horse became a legend among servicemen long before its publication in 1949 and has remained one ever since. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1629140325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
An epic adventure—the most brilliant escape and evasion from the Nazis ever written. Eric Williams, a Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, the infamous German POW camp. Digging an underground tunnel hidden beneath a wooden vaulting horse, he managed to escape after ten months and, accompanied by a fellow officer, made his way back to England. In this thinly fictionalized retelling, Williams relates his story in three distinct phases: the construction of a tunnel (its entrance camouflaged by the wooden vaulting horse in the exercise yard) and hiding the large quantities of sand he dug; the escape; and the journey on foot and by train to the port of Stettin, where Williams and his fellow escapee stowed away aboard a Danish ship, the Norensen. From painstakingly digging the tunnel to secretly depositing the dirt and gravel around the camp to dodging searchlights and search dogs and climbing barbed wire fences, this is an escape story hard to beat. For sheer heroism, courage, and perseverance, this classic is arguably the most ingenious POW escape of WWII. The Wooden Horse became a legend among servicemen long before its publication in 1949 and has remained one ever since. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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The Horse Fair
Author: James Baldwin
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Chiron, formerly of ancient Greece and now in the court of Morgan the Fay, tells Phillip about the history of the horse.
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Chiron, formerly of ancient Greece and now in the court of Morgan the Fay, tells Phillip about the history of the horse.
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Author: Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
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Category : Allusions
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
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The Little Red Book of Horse Wisdom
Author: Yvette Grant
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616087072
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
One little book with a whole lot of horse wisdom the perfect gift for bothbeginning riders and...
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616087072
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
One little book with a whole lot of horse wisdom the perfect gift for bothbeginning riders and...
The Literary Gazette, Or, Journal of Criticism, Science, and the Arts
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Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Pages : 854
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Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend
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Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Pages : 612
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The Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend
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Category : Northumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Category : Northumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
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Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Languages : en
Pages : 858
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