The Dodger. The Extraordinary Story Of Churchill's Cousin And The Great Escape

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: Reprint

Description: 336 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "The Dodger" is the story of John Bigelow "Johnny" Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film "The Great Escape." The American-born and well-connected Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill and friends with the rich and famous of both countries, including Kermit Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelts son. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the "Great Escape." Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitlers interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnnys adventurous life.

ISBN: 9781780576060