There is in most of us the urge to escape; to use our eyes to absorb the loveliness and sometimes the threats around us. Not many of us manage it with the panache of a modest Australian bloke named ...

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Having served as the legless Battle of Britain hero's batman during three years of captivity - carrying him up and down stairs, cooking his meals and washing his clothes - Ross assumed his former boss ...

A photo of Colditz Castle in Saxony, taken by a U.S. troop in 1945. (Department of Defense) Situated just south of Leipzig, Germany, lies Colditz Castle. During World War II, it was used as a prison ...

With two new films about it in the pipeline and a youth hostel about to open there, now might be just the time to pay a visit to Oflag IVc, better known as Colditz castle, the world's most famous ...

Ben MacIntyre has had a successful and lucrative career as a writer mostly of war stories, predominantly set during the second World War. Operation Mincemeat, the story of the cadaver that helped to ...

It was 1943 and the German in question, Stabsfeldwebel (Sergeant Major) Fritz Rothenberger, was the man who carried out nightly inspections of the sentries at the castle which held hundreds of the ...