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Robert Wise (Author)
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May 15, 2004
In the brooding medieval castle of Colditz located near the German border with Czechoslovakia, Allied prisoners of the Second World War devised every method of escape from twisting tunnels to an improvised glider flight from the dreaded Nazi-held castle. In 1942, only Sergeant Tony Irving and five Allied accomplices discovered how to march through the narrow door and escape. Acting with faith and patriotism, the Allied soldiers break out and run toward Switzerland.

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Training Britishers in the use of bazookas against Panzer tanks, American Sergeant Tony Irving is captured by Nazis and sent to a supposedly escape-proof castle deep inside Germany in Wise's The Narrow Door at Colditz. Reminiscent of The Great Escape, Tony and his compadres make a clever, though only partially successful, escape, with Tony standing in for Steve McQueen and with the requisite, none-too-bright commandant providing obstacles. The tale is hardly original, but it's based on historical events, and Wise knows how to deliver suspense. John Mort
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: B&H Fiction (May 15, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0805430725
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805430721
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,164,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Robert Wise is the author of more than thirty published books and numerous articles. In non-fiction writing, Dr. Wise has often addressed issues of struggle. When There Is No Miracle, a survey of why innocent people struggle with pain, has sold for over twenty-five years. He authored When The Night Is Too Long as a sequel. Windows of the Soul describes how God uses our dreams as a means for spiritual growth. In Spiritual Abundance he explores the insights of the early Church Fathers of the first five centuries to discover their directives for personal growth. More recently, Dr. Wise wrote Fearless for Life, covering how Christians could overcome fear, the power of faith in their lives. Released in 2004, Crazymakers presents techniques for dealing with difficult and narcissistic persons.


 

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1.0 out of 5 stars Inaccurate and disappointing, May 6, 2009
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I have been reading POW stories for 50 years. My son got me this book as he knew I have read almost everything on Colditz. I was excited but by the time I was through the first six chapters of the book, I was not only disappointed but disgusted. The author re-introduces charactors every other chapter, plants blatant simili's as if they were exuberant blossoming flowers in the parched desert desolation (I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself) and repeats the same lines or information, almost word for word, pages and chapters apart. These habits question his ability to write at all.

Although the book is based on many real charactors and situations it is incredibly inaccurate in so many aspects of prison life. Even the basic terms used by the Germans in real life "Raus" meaning out, are lost. (See review one above.) The time frame of the war, events in Colditz, escapes and basic attitudes of both escapers and prison staff have no ring of truth to them. Security among prisoners was almost absolute but the "hero" is shown the passage (not an accurate description) into the glider workshop with little background or clearance, and a dozen or more months before it was even started, a major breach of basic camp security and accuracy. There are a couple of dozen other examples I could offer.

The real tragedy of the book is that in the author's "fictional license" he has claimed that the main charactor who is a "true believer" and in my opinion, an arrogant jerk, was successful and the two men who actually escaped in real life were not only failures in the book's escape, but inplied that they were not good enough "true believers" to be successful. In doing so, he dishonors the actual heros of Colditz. Colditz has a dozen books of real life drama. (see Patrick Reid's books and Eggers, the German head of security.) Pick one of them. I wish the author had.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not researched very well, January 10, 2009
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I picked this book up at the library in the hopes it would make an interesting read. I'll admit it started out fine, but there were to many historical errors for me to enjoy it. If historical accuracy isn't a big deal for you then maybe it would be enjoyable. But to call a POW camp a concentration camp is just wrong. They were two totally different things. Also the bazooka didn't enter service until 2 years after this book said it was used. As well as there wasn't a Gewehr 98 rifle. There was a Gewehr 41 rifle though. So overall I couldn't rate this book as an enjoyable novel to read. Mostly because it claims to be based in Historical fact.
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3.0 out of 5 stars so so, May 22, 2007
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I didn't care for this one very much, although I expected to. Maybe it was more of a guy story.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
toasting committee, escape committee, sick ward
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Van Doorninck, Major Eggers, Tony Irving, Colonel Glaesche, Bill Fowler, Colditz Castle, Stooge Wardle, Corporal Schadlich, Rikki Beck, Lulu Lawton, Reinhold Eggers, Captain Lawton, Corporal Otto Schadlich, Jacob Sas, Heinz Gephard, Good Lord, Red Cross, Colonel Edgar Glaesche, Thank God, Donald Wardle, Heil Hitler, Colonel Sas, The Royal Air Force, Sergeant Irving, English Channel
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