A Gallant Company: The True Story of "The Great Escape"

by Jonathan F. Vance

Goes behind the legends to provide a complete account of the March 1944 escape of seventy-nine Allied airmen from Stalag Luft III in eastern Germany during World War II, describing the construction of an escape tunnel and their ongoing efforts to outwit their captors. Reprint.

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Jonathan Vance holds the Canada Research Chair in Conflict and Culture in
the Department of History at The University of Western Ontario. His books
and articles include Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World
War (1997), High Flight: Aviation and the Canadian Imagination (2002), A
Gallant Company: The True Story of "The Great Escape" (2003), and Building
Canada: People and Projects that Shaped the Nation (2006). He is currently
researching the experience of rural Canada during the First World War.

Reviews

[Raimo Wirkkala · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very earnest telling of the famous story first told by Paul Brickhill. This book focuses on the individuals involved and their histories. This approach serves to drive home the human cost of the history that they made.