Friday, March 25, 2011

Also Today...


... is the 67th anniversary of the Great Escape. So after you finish reading a bit of Tolkien, go ahead and watch The Great Escape, with Steve McQueen. Better yet, you might consider reading "The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III" by Tim Carroll.

2 comments:

Treskie said...

ooooh, I didn't know it was the anniversary of the Great Escape! Cool!

Mahri said...

Aye, isn't it? Germany was having an unusually severe winter, and there were a couple feet of snow about, so it was really a very daunting undertaking.

Technically, though, the escape itself began before midnight, on March 24th, so the 25th is when the prisoners were actually out and about.