One of the most daring episodes of World War Two has recently marked its 80th anniversary. On the night of March 24, 1944, 76 British and Commonwealth airmen escaped from a Nazi Prisoner of War camp. It would be the incident that would inspire the epic war film The Great Escape, released in 1963 starring Steve McQueen. The film was inspired by Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name, an insider's account of the 1944 mass escape from the German PoW camp Stalag Luft III. Of the 76 PoWs who tunnelled their way to freedom – three made...