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By: - 7th January 2010 at 11:48 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Link to discussion
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=95442
Moggy
By: - 8th January 2010 at 05:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Moggy ....Thanks
Sir:
Thanks for the link...hope you & family will have a great year in 2010 ! Looking forward to seeing this documentary.
BlueNoser352 !
By: - 8th January 2010 at 06:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The Longest Tunnel By Alan Burgess
Good book on this topic............... " The Longest Tunnel" by Alan Burgess, written in 1990...ISBN 1-55584-033-7 276 pages. Author served in WW II in The RAF.
We Will Remember
Hope to locate a copy of " The Cage"...by Frank McKenna The man who headed the post war investigation into the murder of the POW's... be looking but so far have not located an old copy................
Looking forward to getting a copy of " Amature Commandos" by Raymond Foxhall ...the book used for the fine British film... " Two Men Who Went To War".... a remarkable story in itself ! Got a dvd copy this week...loved it. A film not see here widely here in The USA!
By: - 8th January 2010 at 07:12 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Great Escape Documentary Untold Story !
Outstanding documentary on The Great Escape !
By: - 8th January 2010 at 07:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
" A Gallant Company " by Jonthan Vance !
Excellent book as well on The Great Escape !
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By: BlueNoser352 - 7th January 2010 at 11:17
BlueNoser :
I see this documentary has already aired in the UK & Australia... looking forward to its release on dvd this month. One of the well know stories from WW II and well worth any ones attention ... always remember the 50 each and every March 24th ...... would welcome any comments here from our fine group of members if you saw the program in the UK or Australia.....
Much Thanks !
BlueNoser352 !
The Great Escape : The Reckoning !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq6TsMcLuv4
GREAT ESCAPE: RECKONING
Released 03/02/2010
DVD Region 4 (Australia, New Zealand, Latin America)
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Film and TV Genre Documentary
Description
In March 1944, seventy-six Allied airmen broke out of Stalag Luft III, a prison camp in the heart of Nazi Germany in a story made famous by the iconic Hollywood film, "The Great Escape". Only three 'great escapers' made it back to England. The remaining seventy-three were recaptured and of them, fifty were murdered by the Gestapo in a flagrant breach of the Geneva Convention. As soon as the war ended, a special team of RAF Police headed by RAF Squadron Leader Frank McKenna was dispatched to Germany to find the men responsible and deliver 'exemplary justice.' The Great Escape: The Reckoning follows McKenna's dogged two year investigation of a war crime of amazing complexity. Through dramatic recreation and interviews with surviving prisoners from Stalag Luft III, The Great Escape: The Reckoning reveals the courageous audacity of the escape and the indiscriminate brutality meted out to the prisoners who were recaptured.
Great Escape historians Charles Rollings and Adrian Gilbert reflect on the importance of the Great Escape on the Allied war effort.
RAF Police historian Steve Davies details McKenna's methodical detective work as he tracked down the Gestapo officers involved in the murders.
A remarkably poignant interview, 73 year old Ingeborg Reinhardt remembers her beloved father Emil Schulz. Sixty-five years after the event, she still mourns his death; one of thirteen Gestapo found guilty of the Great Escape murders and hanged.
EXTRAS: Over 60 minutes of additional material! Making of Featurette - Extended Interviews.