Squadron Leaders Robert Stanford Tuck and Roger Bushell (Big X) in Stalag Luft III, Sagan.

The Escape That Should Have Been Impossible

Inside the camp designed to prevent escape, and how 76 Allied officers broke out anyway. When discussing World War II, the camps are a topic that always comes up. Not just the concentration camps and extermination camps of Nazi Germany, but also internment camps, labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, reservation camps,…

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Nick Ravenshade
Nick Ravenshade

Nick Ravenshade, LL.B. is the founder and author of WarCommons. He researches and writes independently on the Second World War, drawing on historical scholarship, memoirs, declassified records and archival sources. His legal training shapes a rigorous, evidence-based approach to WWII history, analysis and argument.

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