Human Game: The True Story of the “Great Escape” Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen

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First edition: October 2012

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Read, Simon, date.

Human game : the true story of the ‘great escape’ murders and the hunt for the Gestapo gunmen / Simon Read.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN: 978-1-101-61158-6

1. World War, 1939–1945—Prisoners and prisons, German. 2. Great Britain. Royal Air Force—Officers—Crimes against. 3. Stalag Luft III. 4. Criminal investigation—Germany. 5. War criminals—Germany—History—20th century. 6. War crime trials—Germany. 7. Great Britain. Royal Air Force Police. Special Investigations Branch. 8. McKenna, Francis P., 1906–1994. I. Title.

D804.G4R356 2012

940.54’7243812—dc23 2012005330

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