1. 10 GREAT POW ESCAPES.
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WILKINSON, STEPHAN
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PRISONER-of-war escapes , *PRISONERS of war , *AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865 - Abstract
The article features ten factual prisoner of war (POW) escapes. It describes Richmond, Virginia's Libby Prison, a Union officers' prison during the Civil War, and how 109 inmates escaped after digging tunnels in 57 days. Winston Churchill escaped on his second night from a Pretoria prison in South Africa by scaling a latrine wall and dropping into a garden. On July 24-25, 1918, 29 British and Australian officers in the German Holzminden POW camp passed through 180 feet of tunnel.
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- 2011