Presents twenty-five stories about or inspired by real escapes throughout history, including accounts of the daring feats of prisoners of war and victims of wrongful imprisonment, and tales by Alexandre Dumas and Mark Twain.
A collection of great escape stories takes readers on a series of adventures, from Lord Nithsdale's daring 1716 breakout from the Tower of London to Dieter Dengler's escape from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp.
