02456cam a2200361 i 4500 247478388 TxAuBib 20151207120000.0 140811s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781628736694 pbk. $14.95 1628736690 pbk. $14.95 (OCoLC)888467011 TxAuBib rda Williams, Eric, 1911-1983,. The wooden horse [paperback] : the classic WWII story of escape / Eric Williams ; foreword by Gregory A. Freeman. First Skyhorse Publishing edition. New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. 263 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: 2013. 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. 20151207. Williams, Eric, 1911-1983. Stalag Luft III. Prisoners of war Great Britain. Prisoners of war Germany. World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, British. Prisoner-of-war escapes Poland. TXLMP