The Greatest Escape : Macmillan : 9781529060331 : 1529060338 : 26 May 2022 : The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place ? 106 Allied prisoners were freed from Maribor camp, in present-day Slovenia. The escape was organized not by officers but by two ordinary soldiers, Australian Ralph Churches (a bank clerk before the war) and Londoner Les Laws (a jazz pianist by profession), with the help of intelligence officer Franklin Lindsay. The American was on a mission to work with the partisans who moved like ghosts through the Alps, ambushing and evading Nazi forces. How these three men came together ? along with the partisans ? to plan and execute the escape is told here for the first time. The Greatest Escape takes us from Ralph and Les's capture in Greece in 1941 and their brutal journe