Great Escape Books is just as a classic bookstore should be--bursting out of its shelves and overflowing with print. Books are piled high here; above overhead shelves, in milk crates on the floor ...

Great Escape Books, one of the oldest bookstores in Toronto, will struggle to stay alive if newly proposed developments in the area take place. There is currently a proposal for a 4-storey build ...

Coincidentally, Bruce and Marg Ewing, the founders of The Great Escape Book Store on Kingston Road, named their business after the historic event not knowing Floody’s family lived just steps away. The ...

For those interested, The Great Escape Bookstore will be holding a discussion of Malmud’s novel on April 4 at 7pm at Kingston Road United Church (975 Kingston Road).

The story was first told by Paul Brickhill, one of the people who helped with the escape attempt, in his 1950 book, The Great Escape. He describes Ley Kenyon, who illustrated the book, as the ...

His acclaimed book "The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America" tells the story of how he aided workers who had been lured to the U.S. by the promise of green ...

The Great Escape infuriated Hitler, and he ordered the survivors shot; 50 of them were murdered, six of them Canadian. There were about 800 Canadians at the camp, and all of them were members of ...

The Great Escape was daring, ingenious, but no Americans were involved in spite of the Hollywood movie. History: The Great Escape March 24/25 1944 By Marc Montgomery | [email protected] ...

The discovery of Plunkett's statement comes as the 80th anniversary of the Great Escape, on the night of March 24, 1944, draws near. Plunkett was arrested by the Gestapo near the Austrian border.

One sandbag at a time, he helped tunnel Allied airmen out of a prisoner-of-war camp that the Nazis had declared escape-proof. Mr. Garland died at age 91 in Ottawa last week.