{"product_id":"the-great-escape-1","title":"The Great Escape","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Paul Brickhill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePublisher: Crest d623\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYear: 1965 Print: 10  Cover Price: $.50\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: \u003ca title=\"Book Grades\" href=\"https:\/\/vintagebookseller.myshopify.com\/pages\/paperback-book-grading\"\u003eBook Grades\u003c\/a\u003e   Very Good. Light wear. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenre:  Non Fiction\/History\/War\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePages: 223\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e30126088E\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men for every hour, every day, and every night for more than a year. With only their bare hands and crude homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored German clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from the Germans who tenaciously prowled the compounds. And against all odds, they pulled off a daring mass escape from a German POW camp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in the world, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAndrea Doria\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was on her way to New York from her home port in Genoa. Departing from the United States was the much smaller \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStockholm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. On the foggy night of July 25, 1956, fifty-three miles southeast of Nantucket in the North Atlantic, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStockholm\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esliced through the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDoria\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e's steel hull. Within minutes, water was pouring into the Italian liner. Eleven hours later, she capsized and sank into the ocean.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this \"electrifying book,\" Associated Press journalist Alvin Moscow, who covered the court hearings that sought to explain the causes of the tragedy and interviewed all the principals, re-creates with compelling accuracy the actions of the ships' officers and crews, and the terrifying experiences of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDoria\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e's passengers as they struggled to evacuate a craft listing so severely that only half of its lifeboats could be launched (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). Recounting the heroic, rapid response of other ships—which averted a catastrophe of the same scale as that of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTitanic—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand the official inquest, Moscow delivers a fact-filled, fascinating drama of this infamous maritime disaster, and explains how a supposedly unsinkable ship ended up at the bottom of the sea.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer’s audacious novel of socialism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest. Wounded during World War II, Mike Lovett is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to himself. But when Lovett rents a room in Brooklyn, he finds that his housemates have secrets of their own: One betrays a husband no one ever sees; another may have been a Communist executioner. Combining Kafkaesque unease with Orwellian paranoia, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBarbary Shore\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eplays havoc with our certainties and delivers its effects with a force that is pure Mailer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA poignant post-WWII \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003etale of a revitalizing love found too late that follows the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eaging American colonel in Italy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003elove story \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ethat inspires light and hope, while only darkness lies ahead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAcross the River and into the Trees,\u003c\/span\u003e the story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vintagebookseller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51877368004839,"sku":"30126088E","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/0537\/files\/img015_41070469-7924-4291-aefc-e65107d3bd66.jpg?v=1773630503","url":"https:\/\/vintagebookseller.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-escape-1","provider":"Vintage Bookseller ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}