It was the mass escape of Allied soldiers from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III, the story of which was forever immortalised in the 1963 film The Great Escape, starring Steve McQueen.

“A hit with the critics and at the box office, The Great Escape is for many the great ‘escape’ film.” The Virgin Film Guide Having featured a strong ensemble cast for his popular western The ...

Princeton University economist Angus Deaton has written an elegant, wide-ranging, and fascinating book on the history of U.S. and global progress in health and material well-being from prehistory to ...

In this WWII prison-camp escape action-film and box-office champ from John Sturges - it was a critically-acclaimed, epic film about the building of a tunnel in 1943 for a 'great escape' (based on a ...

The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass ...

He has a new book out right now, and it’s called Grandpa’s Great Escape! Jack’s poor Grandpa is locked up in a horrible old folk’s home, Twilight Towers, thanks to the horrible old Matron, Miss Swine, ...

But how many know the American icon's role as a daredevil POW in the 1963 World War Two film The Great Escape is supposedly based on a Welshman? Ken Rees, from Anglesey, was the bomber pilot who ...

"They should write a children's book now to sell! Cinnamon, the great Escape or Cinnamon's - living her best life! 😂 think of the merch they can make now!" said one. Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World ...