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  Break-out!: Famous Prison Escapes (Paperback) By (author) Paddy Hayes

  

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  Short Description for Break-out!Bizarre, daring and sometimes downright farcical, the incredible true stories of Ireland's jailbreakers.
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  • Publisher: O'Brien Press Ltd
  • Published: 15 April 2004
  • Format: Paperback 232 pages
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  • Categories: True Crime | True Stories Of Heroism, Endurance & Survival | Penology & Punishment | Prisons | British & Irish History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
  • ISBN 13: 9780862788759 ISBN 10: 0862788757
  • Sales rank: 685,506

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• In 1940 German prisoner of war Hans Marschner managed to saw his way out of Mountjoy, only to be recaptured; in 1943 a young girl eating breakfast was surprised by twenty-one men emerging in her coal shed from the tunnel that had brought them out of Derry prison; the 'Magnificent Seven' grabbed world headlines in 1972 when they swam to freedom from the prison ship The Maidstone; in 1973 an astonishing escape occurred at Mountjoy when three prisoners were picked up by helicopter from the exercise yard in broad daylight; in 1974 Kenneth Littlejohn escaped in strange circumstances from Mountjoy; and then there was the escape from the high-security Maze prison in 1983, involving an incredible thirty-eight prisoners!