Dodger : The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's American Cousin, Two World Wars, and the Great Escape by Tim Carroll (2013, Hardcover)

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When the Second World War broke out, Johnny volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured. As a POW he was an inveterate troublemaker and escapologist — eventually becoming a ringleader of the Great Escape.

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PublisherGlobe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-100762787767
ISBN-139780762787760
eBay Product ID (ePID)143627566

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Book TitleDodger : The Extraordinary Story of Churchill's American Cousin, Two World Wars, and the Great Escape
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War II, Military / General, General, Military
Publication Year2013
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorTim Carroll
FormatHardcover

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Item Weight1.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2013-003947
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Tim Carroll has done a superb job in tracking down a mine of entertaining information on this unjustly forgotten figure."-Nigel Jones, Sunday Telegraph "Great Escape expert Tim Carroll has done a superb job in tracking down a mine of entertaining information on this unjustly forgotton figure."-The London Telegraph   "Book of the week"- Daily Mail, "Tim Carroll has done a superb job in tracking down a mine of entertaining information on this unjustly forgotten figure."--Nigel Jones, Sunday Telegraph "Great Escape expert Tim Carroll has done a superb job in tracking down a mine of entertaining information on this unjustly forgotton figure."--The London Telegraph "Book of the week"-- Daily Mail, Tim Carroll has done a superb job in tracking down a mine of entertaining information on this unjustly forgotten figure - Nigel Jones, Sunday Telegraph Book of the week - Daily Mail, "Great Escape expert Tim Carroll has done a superb job in tracking down a mine of entertaining information on this unjustly forgotton figure." --The London Telegraph
Table Of ContentTable of Contents1 Wookyi-Tipi 172 Age Quod Agis 243 Esprit de Corps 324 Debacle 365 The Soldier 426 Mediterranean Adventure 467 A Corner of a Foreign Field 528 Gallipoli 579 The Western Front 6010 Death Revisited 6511 To the Ends of the Earth 7012 A Great Game 7713 Of Bandits and Brigands 8414 Trading with the Enemy 9315 Prisoner of the Cheka 9816 Appointment with Death 10417 From Far East to East End 10918 Minerva 11519 A Final Note 12620 Prisoner of War 13321 Oh, What a Lovely War! 14222 With Major Rumpel's Compliments . . . 14823 Baltic Interlude 15324 Göring's 'Escape Proof' Camp 16325 Polish Interlude 17426 Tom, Dick and Harry 18427 Last Letters Home 19428 Per Ardua ad Astra 201THE DODGER FCP PROOF.indd 11 29/02/2012 15:0829 Death Postponed 21030 The Sachsenhausen Tunnel 21631 Escape from the SS 22232 Mission to Downing Street 23133 Berlin Days 23734 Travels with Dr Thost 24535 Home 25236 Shadows and Fog 26037 In Memoriam
SynopsisThe Dodger is the story of John Bigelow Johnny Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape.Of all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann Göring's escape proof camp in the famous Great Escape of March 1944, Johnny Dodge was the most intriguing.The American-born and well-connected Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill and friends with the rich and famous of both countries, including Kermit Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's son. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the 'Great Escape'.Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitler's interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche Nazi apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnny's adventurous life., The Dodger is the story of John Bigelow "Johnny" Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape.Of all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann G ring's "escape proof" camp in the famous "Great Escape" of March 1944, Johnny Dodge was the most intriguing.The American-born and well-connected Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill and friends with the rich and famous of both countries, including Kermit Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's son. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the 'Great Escape'.Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitler's interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche Nazi apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnny's adventurous life., Of all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann Göring's "escape proof" camp in the famous "Great Escape" of March 1944, Johnny Dodge was the most intriguing.., The Dodger is the story of John Bigelow "Johnny" Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape. The American-born and well-connected Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill and friends with the rich and famous of both countries, including Kermit Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's son. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the "Great Escape." Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitler's interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnny's adventurous life., The Dodger is the story of John Bigelow "Johnny" Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape.Of all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann Göring's "escape proof" camp in the famous "Great Escape" of March 1944, Johnny Dodge was the most intriguing.The American-born and well-connected Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill and friends with the rich and famous of both countries, including Kermit Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's son. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the 'Great Escape'.Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitler's interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche Nazi apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnny's adventurous life.
LC Classification NumberD805.5.S745C36 2013

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