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To: ConorMacNessa

Wasn't Brickhill's book the basis for The Great Escape ?

14 posted on 08/31/2006 9:01:16 PM PDT by JennysCool (Roll out the Canarble Wagon!)

To: JennysCool

That's another book, also called The Great Escape. It was a true story, only slightly altered in the movie - the American characters were fictional.

18 posted on 08/31/2006 9:07:42 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)

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