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The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III: Story of How 76 Allied Officers Carried. The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Full story of How 76 Allied Officers Carried Out World War II's Most Remarkable Mass Escape. The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III is a 2005 book by Tim Carroll that details the 1944 mass escape of 76 Allied airmen from the German POW camp Stalag Luft III, a feat immortalized in the classic film The Great Escape. Carroll's book provides an in-depth, true account of the operation, including the prisoners' espionage network, the tragic murder of 50 recaptured escapers by the Gestapo, and the later efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice.