His tenure, along with his ability to speak English and French, "gave me as good a chance as anyone on the German staff of ...

THE COLDITZ STORY (288 pp.) —P R. Reid—Lippincott ($3.95). Two British officers, talking things over one day in June 1940, agreed that what they had chiefly in common was an intense desire to be ...

Ben MacIntyre has had a successful and lucrative career as a writer mostly of war stories, predominantly set during the second World War. Operation Mincemeat, the story of the cadaver that helped to ...

The Colditz Story portrays the real-life experiences of Allied prisoners of war held in the formidable German fortress Colditz Castle during World War II. It focuses on their inventive escape ...

In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I travel to Eastern Germany to visit Colditz Castle, home to troublesome Allied Prisoners of War! Believed to be the perfect prison camp for prisoners who had made ...

This past spring, I watched the movie “Operation Mincemeat.” It was based on Ben Macintyre’s book on the British plan called Operation Mincemeat during World War II. There’s plenty of intrigue, ...

This story is part of the February 11 edition of Good Weekend. See all stories. Ben Macintyre has written more than a dozen books about World War II and the Cold War ...

13:15, Mon, Sep 26, 2022 Updated: 13:15, Mon, Sep 26, 2022 Having served as the legless Battle of Britain hero's batman during three years of captivity - carrying him up and down stairs, cooking his ...

At a new museum inside Schloss Colditz, our writer hears tales of derring-do involving abseiling, dirty laundry and a sewing machine William Cook writes about European travel for The Telegraph, with a ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. The 60th anniversary of the liberation of Colditz falls on the 16th of next ...