THE DODGER: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF CHURCHILL’S COUSIN AND THE GREAT ESCAPE
Book ID/图书代码： 08430012B54946
English Summary/英文概要： The Dodger is the long-awaited story of Johnny Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape.Of all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann Göring’s ’escape proof’ camp in the famous episode of March 1944, Johnny Dodge was the most intriguing. American-born Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the ’Great Escape’.
Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitler’s interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche Nazi apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnny’s adventurous life.
The Dodger draws upon Dodge’s voluminous private papers, including photographs taken inside prison camps and letters home, casting revealing new light on the myth of the Great Escape.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《道奇》是约翰尼•道奇期待已久的故事，他是战争时期的英雄以及在是冒险传奇的好莱坞电影《大逃亡》里的关键人物。
在所有的那些在1944年著名的事件中，从Hermann Göring的“逃生证明”集中营逃走的盟军战俘中，约翰尼•道奇是最有趣的。美国出生的道奇与表妹温斯顿•丘吉尔结婚。当第二次世界大战爆发后，他志愿参军，但很快在敦刻尔克被捕获。他成为战俘、天生的逃跑者和制造麻烦者，最终成为《大逃亡》里的首要分子。
幸存的凶残的盖世太保，他被扔进一个重要分子的由因里希•希姆莱监管的萨克森豪森集中营，但他再次逃跑。又被捕后，约翰尼和希特勒的口译被SS迅速带到柏林的一个会议上，这个口译员派他去对他在唐宁街的表姐执行一个秘密任务。他的长途冒险旅行经历了第三帝国的余烬到瑞士，在一个生命狼藉的纳粹官员里获得自由，这个纳粹关于是约翰尼冒险生活中最后一个好奇的逃亡。
《道奇》引用了道奇大量的私人文件，包括在集中营里拍摄的照片以及寄给家里的信件，揭露了《大逃亡》的神话。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 蒂姆•卡罗尔是一个全国性的报纸记者和电视制片人，他是《伟大逃亡者：第二次世界大战最引人注目的大规模逃离的完整故事》和《希特勒地堡：一个男孩士兵目睹元首最后的日子》的合著者。他已婚，有两个孩子，住在伦敦。Tim Carroll is a national newspaper journalist and television producer. He is the author of The Great Escapers: The Full Story of the Second World War’s Most Remarkable Mass Escape and was co-author of In Hitler’s Bunker: A Boy Soldier’s Eyewitness Account of the Führer’s Last Days. He is married with two children and lives in London.
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