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Escapees, Catalogue reference: WO 235/431

The Great Escape - video

Published date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:00:00 GMT

‘The Great Escape’, one of the most popular war films of all, tells the story of a daring group of prisoners of war who tunnel their way to freedom from Stalag Luft III, a Polish prisoner-of-war camp.

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