Standing inside Colditz Castle, we trace the escape attempts that turned a “high security” prison into a battlefield of patience and nerve. From disguises that almost worked to tunnels that took ...

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974. The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the supposedly ...

PARIS (Reuters) - General Alain Le Ray, a leading figure in France's wartime resistance and the first man to escape from the notorious Colditz prison camp has died at the age of 96, according a death ...

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 ...