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escape processes was pretty interesting, Once they got out there really was not much suspense during their flight out of Germany to home, It wasn't totally boring, but it was not compelling either, Very goodcassette audio book that I read in Februaryeven though this book was published in, This is a truehour story about how two English pilots were shot down, captured, imprisoned at StalagLuft III on December,, and how they escaped to freedom using a very clever deception, and a lot of determination.
I read amass market paperback edition from Berkley Books, In the introduction, it says that it's a special edition for teens,

This is a fictionalized account of an escape from a prisoner of war camp run by the Germans, written by one of the escapees, The camp is surrounded by barbed wire, and buildings inside the compound are placed on piles so that guards can see under the buildings, It's hardly a prime location for POWs to build a tunnel, but build a tunnel they do, The ingenuity of the prisoners, not just for the tunnel, but for other tasks, is inspiring, The way the men deal with each other and the indignities and dangers of their imprisonment is interesting, as are the difficulties faced by the escapees as they try to get out of Germancontrolled territory.
The story is well written, The switch to the fictionalized format let the author insert more points of view,

I saw that a reviewer at Amazon said that later editions of the book left out a fabricated deadly encounter with a German soldier that the original publishers wanted put into the book to punch up the ending.
My book is apparently an early one, because it has the incident, In my opinion, it wasn't the least bit needed, The story was interesting enough, and suspenseful enough, without it, A fascinating read on prisoner of war life and the strong need to escape after all, that is the prisoners duty to escape, And knowing that this is a true story made it all the more interesting to me, I love reading the survival stories of World War II, I read from aprinting in which Eric Williams wrote he could now freely write of the Escape and had used a little of the material he had originally written in hisbook "Goon in the Block".
A daring tale of escape from the eyes of a British soldier in a German POW camp, . . Told with a flowing style, underlying humor, and quick dialogue, Good Book! Novelization of a true WWII escape story, Three British prisoners use a vault horse with a false bottom to dig a tunnel under the wire, It was a clever plan that worked and two of the prisoners were able to escape all the way back to England, Not really my style of book I picked it up because it's one of my dad's favourites, but an amazing story! I guess it really is acquired taste though: Williams obsesses over the smallest details and therefore the main part of the story feels very slow at times, whereas the ending to me was very sudden and abrupt.
Based on true events in which the author, calling himself Peter, was involved, this is the story of a successful escape from Stalag Luft III in Germanoccupied Poland, by British prisoners of war, during WWII.

The title is well chose, for it was by means of a wooden vaultinghorse that Eric Williams and his two companions made their way out of the captivity of a German prison camp, into freedom.

This vaultinghorse was four feet six inches high and its base covered an area of five feet by three feet, When it was carried into the courtyard the German guards thought it was simply a vaultinghorse, similar to that used in any gymnasium,
It is true that the prisoners vaulted over it, But unknown to the German guards, two men were always concealed within the horse and while the prisoners vaulted, these two men were busy underground burrowing a tunnel,
When's the day's work was over the hole was boarded up, earth placed over the boards, and the horse with the two men inside taken back into the camp.
This work of tunnelling went on for several months, until the tunnel was overfeet long and extended beyond the barbed wire which bounded the camp, A Journey back to my youth,

I first read this book as a teenager in the early's, I later saw the movie, Both experiences were first class, Thank you Bookbub for finding and releasing the book electronically so that I could relive the prisoners experience once more, My first escape story from a POW camp, I loved it! The ingenuity of it all, Speaking with second world war veterans, they tell of amazing things the prisoners got up to and how they all felt it was their duty to try and escape.
There are two significantly different versions of this book, Eric Williams' originaledition was written while military censorship was still in force, and is a simpler story, built around simpler characters,

In theedition, Williams sets the records straight on particularly one event that was invented to make a better ending for thebook, The rest of the book is significantly revised and expanded, also, and the PoWs' language becomes less "comicbook" and more one assumes true to life,

Read therevision if you want the actual

story theis more like a Boys' Own adventure,

One of the great escape books of all time about RAF flyers imprisoned in an infamous German POW camp during World War II, Wooden Horse is a fictionalized narration of the true events behind one of the most ingenious and daring escape made by POWs from a German prison camp during World War II.
Written by RAF Flight Lieutenant Eric Williams, who was one of the escapees this book is an absorbing narration of how perseverance, bravery and ingenuity helped the prisoners to break from a POW prison camp which was specially designed to be escaperesistant.


Eric Williams was shot down over Germany inand was initially imprisoned in the Oflag XXIB prisonerofwar camp in Occupied Poland, A failed attempt at escape from that prison resulted in him being transferred to one of the most escapeproof POW camps of the time, Stalag Luft III, the Luftwafferun prison camp for captured airmen, in Zagan, Poland.
Those readers who are familiar with the Paul Brickhill book fromor theSteve McQueen smash hit movie, both titled The Great Escape will remember Stalag Luft III as the infamous prison camp specifically designed to prevent prisoners from tunneling out of the camp with both natural and man made defensive measures.


Wooden Horse is the detailed accounts of how a bunch of prisoners beat all the odds stacked against them by punching through each of the camps defenses with tenacity and a genius of a plan.
The book narrates these tense events separated in to three different sections, It is in the first phase of the narration that the reader gets introduced to the Wooden Horse a wooden vaulting horse meant for exercise with a hidden hollow inside which was made by the prisoners to camouflage the entrance of an escape tunnel, which was under construction and this explains the title of the book.


The hollowed out wooden vaulting horse was a brilliant invention just like the real Trojan Horse and it allowed Williams and two other officers conceal themselves while engaged in the tunneling operation and to hide the large quantities of sand, which they dug out.
The second phase of the book describe their escape from the prison through the tunnel dodging search dogs, sentries and searchlights and the third phase narrates their pulse racing journey across German occupied territories engulfed in the desperations of war on foot and on train with the ever present danger of getting captured again.
After some real close shaves with danger they finally manage to stow away themselves in two different ships to reach the safety of a neutral Sweden,

Though based on true events, since the book was written just after the war in, the military censorship, which was still in existence over the matters, prevented the author from using the real names of the escapees and he portrays himself under the fictitious name of Peter Howard.
The authors attempt in recreating the mental attitude of the prisoners and their conversations, which reflect their contempt towards the German guards show the true doctrine which is instilled in a soldier during any war, the doctrine of “In total war one despises ones enemy, and as a prisoner of war ones only weapon is derision.


Wooden Horse is a classic tale of escape and evasion, which can excite and inspire the reader and keep him glued to the book like a thriller.
I'd give a lot to have been there digging a secret tunnel out from a german prison camp, Read ages ago and need to re read, During the digging of the tunnels in Stalag Luft III the Great Escape, some prisoners came up with an ingenious invention to fool the Germans and shorten a tunnel by hundreds of yards.
Amazing story and written extremely well See "The Great Escape' good WWprison camp escape, This is an intriguing story of the hardship, challenges and horror of WW II as prisoners in a camp try to escape, The story is based on fact and is one to grab, Duty
Honor
Country
Courage
Friendship
Dedication
Perseverance
I could go on,
This book encompasses all of the above and more, A great tale , well told by the author, This story grips your attention while reading and it won't let go,
Excellent.
An interesting and amazing story especially knowing that it is a true story, It is the story telling and not the story that is the reason for three and not four, but being written as a novel instead of a nonfiction story it somehow fails to really capture me.
Eric Williams, MC was a former Second World War RAF pilot and prisoner of war who wrote several books dealing with his escapes from prisoner of war camps, At the end of the war, on the long sea voyage home, Williams wrote Goon In The Block, a short book based on his experiences, Four years later, in, he rewrote it as a much longer third person narrative under the title The Wooden Horse, He included many details omitted in his previous book, but changed his name to Peter Howard, Eric Williams, MC was a former Second World War RAF pilot and prisoner of war who wrote several books dealing with his escapes from prisoner of war camps, At the end of the war, on the long sea voyage home, Williams wrote Goon In The Block, a short book based on his experiences, Four years later, in, he rewrote it as a much longer third person narrative under the title The Wooden Horse, He included many details omitted in his previous book, but changed his name to 'Peter Howard', sitelink.