The 15 Minute Book Club · Alex Churchill, Matt Bone
History Hack: Indian POW Escape
May 13, 2024·45 min·4 clips
Guy Bowman explains why Indian prisoners of war were treated the same as white British soldiers under Nazi ideology.
As heard by us
A wartime escape story where terrain, confusion, and chance all matter.
History Hack tells the Great Epinoy Escape as a wartime story rooted in place, not myth. It follows Indian prisoners of war in German hands as the bombing around Epinal creates an opening to get away, and the geography does a lot of the work: the slope, the ravine, the little…
Why you'd press play
For when you want an escape story shaped by bombers, woods, and bad options.
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