Jeff Gorton, the GM who succeeded Sather in 2015, pulled off a Great Escape of his own that has become the second-most notable for the organization and is resonating now by getting out from under ...
Stalag Luft III will be forever remembered as the Great Escape camp after the iconic film about 76 PoWs who fled, only for most of them to be rounded up and executed by the Gestapo.
Instead of driving a few hours from Kars to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, I would have to describe a great circle route—by way of Gori and Tbilisi, all in the republic of Georgia—before I ...
In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape. In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through ...