The Escape Game
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A Board Game Holds Keys to Prisoners’ Escape
Full of intrigue, adventure, and romance, this series celebrates the unsung heroes—the heroines of WWII.
After the Nazis started the bombing blitz of England, Beryl Clarke puts her college on hold to return to Leeds, care for her mother, and work as a secretary at the Waddington game company. While she endures the war at home, her brother James fights the enemy in the air. When he is shot down, injured, and captured, James reunites with a former college friend American POW Kenneth Bordelon, and they plan to escape the Nazi prison camp. Beryl knows there is a board game with escape plans being delivered to POWs by the Red Cross. But how can she let them know about the game's secret without revealing the information to the enemy?
Customer Reviews
Incredible but true history
A Monopoly piece - a tiny race-car - but oh the story it tells.
War brings many undesirable things with it, not the least of which was the air raid sirens that peeled through the silence in Leeds, England in 1941. As an Air Raid Warden, Beryl has the unfortunate privilege of encouraging folks to find shelter, sometimes just managing to do so herself. Many were not so fortunate. Fathers, sons and brothers are fighting, including James, her brother, as well as his college buddy, Kenneth. POWs in Germany, escape is at the top of their list.
Waddingtons, a game manufacturer, is commissioned to make a very special Monopoly game - one fit for those who are stuck behind enemy lines. Will James and his fellow POWs receive one of these special games - one that can help them escape?
This early copy of Heroines of WWII was received through Barbour Publishing and NetGalley. These thoughts are my own and were in no way solicited.