Inspired by another successful escape in a neighboring compound, Stalag Luft III escape mastermind Roger Bushell and the X Committee reopen a second escape tunnel nicknamed Harry, as teams begin ...

Seventy years ago—July 23, 1944—signs suddenly appeared at prisoner of war camps in Germany: “ESCAPE FROM PRISON CAMPS IS NO LONGER A SPORT.” Those signs meant the Gestapo had murdered 50 escapees ...

Captive British airmen devise plans to escape Stalag Luft III prison via tunnels. Captive British airmen make it their mission to escape from a brand new Nazi prison – Stalag Luft III – by building ...

“Everyone here in this room is living on borrowed time. By rights we should all be dead,” Roger Bushell, Royal Air Force Squadron Leader, speaking to “Escape Committee” in March 1943. “Three bloody ...

The opening instalment reveals how the PoWs set about building three huge tunnels and preparing 200 men for escape from Stalag Luft III. In the second episode, Roger Bushell and the X Committee are ...

For the first time the true story of the mastermind behind World War IIs Great Escape is told by his niece Lindy Wilson Squadron Leader Roger Bushell was a young London barrister an auxiliary pilot ...