🎧 The Great Escape with Guy Walters
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit
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14m
Was The Great Escape as great as its name suggests? Guy Walters thinks otherwise, and argues that the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III actually helped the German war effort. Dan chats to him to find out more.
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