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Tunnel King: The True Story of Wally Floody and The Great Escape

Barbara Hehner

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Description:The Great Escape was the most daring and meticulously planned prisoner-of-war breakout of the Second World War. Yet not many Canadians— least of all children— know the heroic story of Wally Floody, a Canadian airman imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, who was a key figure in digging a set of sophisticated tunnels. Now acclaimed children’ s writer Barbara Hehner has penned a gripping action-adventure that tells Floody’ s incredible story, and how he eventually became the consultant for the movie The Great Escape.Packed with the kind of details kids love— like the fact that the prisoners built their own radios from empty cookie tins, or how the tunnels were shored up using 4,000 boards from the prisoners’ beds— The Tunnel King also provides an informative and dramatic Canadian context to the Second World War. Written in a lively style infused with Hehner’ s obvious passion for her subject, this is a book that kids will devour.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tunnel King: The True Story of Wally Floody and The Great Escape. To get started finding Tunnel King: The True Story of Wally Floody and The Great Escape, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Great Escape was the most daring and meticulously planned prisoner-of-war breakout of the Second World War. Yet not many Canadians— least of all children— know the heroic story of Wally Floody, a Canadian airman imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, who was a key figure in digging a set of sophisticated tunnels. Now acclaimed children’ s writer Barbara Hehner has penned a gripping action-adventure that tells Floody’ s incredible story, and how he eventually became the consultant for the movie The Great Escape.Packed with the kind of details kids love— like the fact that the prisoners built their own radios from empty cookie tins, or how the tunnels were shored up using 4,000 boards from the prisoners’ beds— The Tunnel King also provides an informative and dramatic Canadian context to the Second World War. Written in a lively style infused with Hehner’ s obvious passion for her subject, this is a book that kids will devour.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tunnel King: The True Story of Wally Floody and The Great Escape. To get started finding Tunnel King: The True Story of Wally Floody and The Great Escape, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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