Thrilling narratives of escape from captivity during World War II are legion. The story of Colditz is one of the best known: an oft-recounted tale of jolly good chaps, all in it together, outwitting ...

To understand Escape From Colditz, we need a little history jam session. This is an early 70s board game based on an actual escape from the Nazi Germany prison camp Colditz Castle. This is a game that ...

Maj. Patrick Reid, the British World War II officer who escaped from Colditz Castle, a supposedly impregnable Nazi prison camp, has died, an official said Thursday. He was 79. Kenneth Lockwood, ...

Alain Le Ray, a French general and World War II Resistance leader who was the first man to escape from a notorious Nazi prison, died Monday, his family announced. A cause of death was not given. He ...

In this riveting history of Nazi Germany’s most notorious POW camp, bestseller Macintyre (Agent Sonya) spotlights the indomitable will and creativity of the inmates who tried to escape from it.

A crack team rebuilds a glider that POWs hoped to catapult off the top of Colditz Castle. A crack team rebuilds a glider that POWs hoped to catapult off the top of Colditz Castle. Airing May 14, 2014 ...

The Nazis used Colditz Castle as a detention facility for Allied soldiers. A group of Dutch officers devised a clever plan to escape the camp. Their plot, which led four men to freedom, involved only ...

The Colditz Story portrays the real-life experiences of Allied prisoners of war held in the formidable German fortress Colditz Castle during World War II. It focuses on their inventive escape ...