The Great Epinal Escape: Bowman's book is a long-overdue tale worth telling

With its rare photographs, The Great Epinal Escape is an important record of the lives of the Indian Army in combat and captivity in major theatres of war in the west

The Great Epinal Escape: Indian Prisoners of War in German Hands

Author: Ghee Bowman

Publisher: Westland

Pages: 272  Price: ₹699 

In World War II lore, The Wooden Horse and The Great Escape get star billing as heroic stories of Allied prisoners of war escaping German captivity from the Stalag Luft III in occupied Poland. Both accounts appeared as books that were made into popular movies. The heavily fictionalised version of The Great Escape went on to become a blockbuster with its stellar cast of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and Richard Attenborough. The Great Epinal Escape may not have the ingre­dients of a