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title: "The Wooden Horse: The Classic World War II Story of Escape"
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# The Wooden Horse: The Classic World War II Story of Escape

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## Customer Reviews

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    Worth reading
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 3, 2016*

Growing up in England during the 1950's I was exposed to many stories about life in and escapes from German POW camps during WWII, some good, others not so good.  Sixty years later, I was intrigued by the synopsis of The Wooden Horse, so I downloaded and read it.  It didn't immediately grab me - the description of POW camp life was a bit slow, but it gave the author (who turned what I believe was his own escape into a novel to avoid problems with the British Official Secrets Act) a chance to set the scene and develop the characters.  The author and his fellow escapees dug a tunnel from underneath a wooden vaulting horse (hence the title), carrying the dirt the laboriously dug out in hand sewn bags made from old clothing and hiding it around the camp.  With clothing to make themselves passable (and inconspicuous), forged travel documents, and some German currency, they managed to scramble through the tunnel and away from the camp before their absence was discovered.  Their escape plan had some specific objectives, but lacked detail (specific information being hard to come by), but by good luck, ingenuity, and help along the way they made it to Sweden, where they were forced to kick their heels while the British bureaucracy took its sweet time getting them repatriated.  As I said, it was a bit slow to start, but picked up and became quite interesting and suspenseful (I wasn't sure they were really going to make it), particularly after the escape itself, with what I think must be some good characterizations of what life must have been like for many poor Germans and other nationals forced to work for the Nazis under appalling conditions.

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    An enduring great read
  

*by H***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2014*

I first read this book when I was in grade school.  It was making the rounds of my classmates and it predated the appearance of Brickhill's Great Escape by several years.  It started a lifelong fascination with any kind of WW2 POW experience and by extension with the Battle of Britain and its participants.  I never forgot the book and actually sought out an online used copy several years ago.  The Kindle version has an extensive forward by the author, which I do not recall having read before.  Maybe I skipped reading it, or I might have read earlier versions of the book that did not include it.  In the forward, I learned that the Wooden Horse was written as a novel, based on the author's actual experience.  Apparently, there was no market for an actual memoir at the time, since they were probably a dime a dozen in the immediate post-war years.  The story is well written and still as fascinating as I recall from the other two times that I read it.  Perhaps more so because of the extensive background information I have absorbed on the general subject over the years.  One thing that stands out is how honorably the WW2 Germans apparently treated their western ally officer POWs during most of the war, compared to they way that they apparently treated everyone that came within their power in the east - POWs and conquered populations alike.  As one Colditz alumnus once described it, a German POW cap was like a bad hotel compared to the way the Japanese treated their POWs.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Exciting, suspenseful, very well written
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 10, 2021*

Even though you know the eventual ending, the book is written in  a very suspenseful manner.  The author is an excellent writer.  Found it hard to put done.  It is amazing what all of these POWs did and went through.

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