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   2. Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 1916 – 23 April 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war, and author who wrote The Great Escape, The Dam Busters, and Reach for the Sky .

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3. www.afr.com › life-and-luxury › arts-and-culturePaul Brickhill, the Australian hero-maker behind "The Great ...

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   Aug 31, 2016 · The Hero Maker: A Biography of Paul Brickhill by Stephen Dando-Collins, published by Vintage Australia, $34.99 For the rest of their married life, Brickhill would employ domestic help for Margot ...

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   Mar 23, 2019 · It was a dog-eared, paperback copy of Paul Brickhill's The Great Escape — the epic true story of the mass breakout by allied airmen from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner of war camp in World ...

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6. www.goodreads.com › author › showPaul Brickhill (Author of The Great Escape) - Goodreads

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   Though The Great Escape is a novel, its basic story is true, and the novel's author Paul Brickhill (1916-91) was a participant in it. Brickhill, an Australian, had flown missions against the Germans in Tunisia for the Royal Australian Air Force when he was shot down in 1943. Locked away and bored in Silesia in Luft Stalag III, he and his fellow ...

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   • Death Date: April 23, 1991

   • Birth Date: December 20, 1916

7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Great_Escape_(book)The Great Escape (book) - Wikipedia

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   Publication date. 1950 (US), 1951 (UK) The Great Escape is a 1950 book by Australian writer Paul Brickhill that provides an insider's account of the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen. As a prisoner in the camp, he participated in the escape plan but was debarred from the ...

8. www.nytimes.com › 1991/04/26 › obituariesPaul Brickhill, 74, Author of War Novels - The New York Times

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   Apr 26, 1991 · Paul Brickhill, author of "The Great Escape" and other war novels that sold millions of copies and were made into films, died on Tuesday. ... Mr. Brickhill was a journalist on The Sun newspaper in ...

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   • The Bestselling Mosman Author: Paul Brickhill, RAAF & POW Hero in ISAA Review Vol 17 No.1 2019, Journal of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc. ^ a b "Paul Brickhill, Australia's glamorous hero-maker of "The Great Escape" and "The Dam Busters" ". 2 September 2016. ^ Dando-Collins. Page 283. ^ Dando-Collins. Page 307.

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   What happened to Paul Brickhill?

   • "For sheer suspense, puts the fictioneers to shame." Paul Brickhill (1916―1991) was shot down over the Mareth Line in Tunisia on March 17, 1943. He landed in the middle of a minefield in front of the enemy barbed wire and was captured. He was soon transferred to Stalag Luft III, where he joined organization "X" working on the great escape.

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   What is the Great Escape by Paul Brickhill about?

   • The Great Escape is a 1950 book by Australian writer Paul Brickhill that provides an insider's account of the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen.

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   Did George Harsh receive a letter from Paul Brickhill?

   • In his New York City apartment, George Harsh sat gazing absently out the window. At his office several days earlier he'd received a package in the mail from Paul Brickhill in London – the manuscript to Brickhill's The Great Escape, neatly typed by the author on loose pages. Brickhill was asking for his comments, suggestions and corrections.

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    Aug 17, 2004 · The Great Escape. Paperback – August 17, 2004. by Paul Brickhill (Author) 4.8 431 ratings. See all formats and editions. "A tense, thrilling, fabulous tale." ―Philadelphia Inquirer. They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts ...

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