He works in mysterious ways.

Colditz Castle, a forbidding medieval edifice near Leipzig, Germany, was supposed to be the Nazis' most escape-proof prison. Incorrigible Allied officers who had repeatedly escaped from other camps ...

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974. The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the supposedly ...

On a snowy day in December, 1943, while he looked out over the German town of Colditz, POW Bill Goldfinch noticed snowflakes outside his window drifting upward. Perhaps it would be possible, he ...

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After writing more than a dozen critically lauded popular histories, many of them about espionage during the Second World War or the Cold War, Ben MacIntyre is enjoying a bit of a red-carpet moment: ...

Growing up in the seventies, World War II was writ large in the imaginations of young boys such as myself. There were endless films on TV, celebrating the tragedies, triumphs, victories and failures ...