Books like The narrow door at Colditz by Robert L. Wise

A 1930s wartime tale of a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France, weaving themes of survival, friendship, and the moral choices people make amid World War II.

Set in wartime Berlin, two children—Sieglinde, orphaned by her censor father, and Erich, a beekeeping boy near Leipzig—find unexpected refuge in a ruined theatre, their friendship shaping their futures as the war collapses. The wish child watches over them.

A British officer relates his activities in and eventual escape from Colditz Castle, one of the best guarded German prisoner-of-war camps.

A daring OSS operative must help a German lieutenant escape a Mississippi POW camp, uncover a Nazi conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, and protect the lieutenants’ parents in Argentina from a lethal assassination plot.

The Germans thought escape was impossible. These men proved them wrong. Colditz Castle, located near Leipzig Germany, was the last stop for select Allied prisoners during World War II. It was here, a reportedly impregnable fortress, that the Germans sent all the prisoners who escaped from other prisons. Once within the walls, the Germans reasoned, escaping was impossible. Yet during the four-year period when the castle was used as a prison, over three hundred men escaped, thirty-one through Nazi Germany. Prisoners from ten different Allied countries worked together to form a truly international escape academy. They created skeleton keys, forged German passes, drafted maps, and constructed all types of tools and machinery out of whatever they could find. The ingenuity of the prisoners knew no bounds: they tried everything from tunneling underneath the castle's walls to hiding in the garbage to disguising themselves as German officers. They even built a glider, which they never used. Resourcefulness and hard work won a few of them their freedom. Author and former British Army officer, P.R. Reid, was one of the men who escaped from Colditz and made it home to tell the story. This paperback edition, introduced into the Zenith Military Classic series, introduces this thrilling WWII story to a new generation of readers. Four appendices at the end of book provide a full listing of prisoners and staff, all of the attempted escapes, the secret code used to communicate between prisoners and the outside world, and more.

A memoir of military imprisonment during WWII. Allied POW's who attempted escapes from other facilities in Germany ended up at Colditz castle. Despite the seriousness of the situation it is filled with hilarious anecdotes of the misbehaviour of the POW's who knew exactly the legal protections afforded POW's and how far they could push their guards. This book includes a description of the famous Colditz glider and how it was built under the noses of the German guards.